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  • Baboons break out of a research center using a barrel and savor a fleeting taste of rebellion

    Four baboons, having clearly read too much dystopian fiction, escaped a biomedical research lab in San Antonio by climbing a 55-gallon barrel and jumping ... The Texas Biomedical Research Institute described the escape as an “animal perimeter breach incident,” which, in all fairness to the…

  • Baboons escape Texas research facility using barrel as ladder

    San Antonio -- Baboons at a research facility in Texas escaped over the weekend by climbing out of their enclosure using a barrel. The four baboons escaped briefly on Saturday from their open-air enclosure at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio. The animals rolled a 55-gallon…

  • Researchers reveal how baboons made daring escape from Texas facility

    SAN ANTONIO – Researchers at the Southwest National Primate Research Center are now revealing how four baboons escaped a Westside San Antonio facility on Saturday. The primates were rounded ... The Research Center has more than 2,000 primates for biomedical research. The four escapees ...…

  • Metacrine Broadens Management Team with Two Key Hires

    “Trisha brings with her a wealth of operational, strategic and financial expertise in the biotechnology sector. ... completed a Research Fellowship in Cardiology and Pharmacokinetics at University of Florida, and started his academic career at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San…

  • Ingenious baboons escape Texas biomedical lab for brief taste of freedom

    Three of the baboons leaped over the wall that pens in some 2,500 animals, including 1,100 baboons, used to "aid our scientists in the search for new diagnostics, drug therapies and vaccines," the San Antonio lab said. The fourth tried to make a run for it but appears to have gotten cold feet…