News tagged with macaque monkeys

Why Some Monkeys Don't Get AIDS

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two studies published this month in the Journal of Clinical Investigation provide a significant advance in understanding how some species of monkeys such as sooty mangabeys and African green ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neuroscientists find neural stopwatch in the brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Keeping track of time is one of the brain's most important tasks. As the brain processes the flood of sights and sounds it encounters, it must also remember when each event occurred. But how ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Rhesus macaque moms 'go gaga' for baby, too

The intense exchanges that human mothers share with their newborn infants may have some pretty deep roots, suggests a study of rhesus macaques reported online on October 8th in Current Biology.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Evidence Points to Conscious 'Metacognition' in Some Nonhuman Animals

(PhysOrg.com) -- J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 16

Researchers identify parallel mechanism monkeys and humans use to recognize faces

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have demonstrated for the first time rhesus monkeys and humans share a specific perceptual mechanism, configural perception, for discriminating ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Relief from itch seen in nerves; may aid treatment

(AP) -- Scratch an itch and you get ... aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent itching in people.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Flossing monkeys 'proof' animals teach tool use

Thai monkeys have been observed showing their young how to floss -- proof primates teach offspring to use tools, a Japanese researcher said Wednesday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

AIDS: Microbicide gel 'highly encouraging' in lab tests

The dogged search for a vaginal gel to thwart the AIDS virus earned some good news on Wednesday as scientists announced that a cheap, commonly-used compound shielded monkeys from a lethal cousin of HIV.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers unveil new monkey model for HIV

By altering just one gene in HIV-1, scientists have succeeded in infecting pig-tailed macaque monkeys with a human version of the virus that has until now been impossible to study directly in animals. The new strain of HIV ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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