News tagged with macaques
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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
Oct 19, 2009 |
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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.
Oct 08, 2009 |
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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 ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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New research confirms potential deadly nature of emerging new monkey malaria species in humans
Researchers in Malaysia have identified key laboratory and clinical features of an emerging new form of malaria infection. The research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, confirms the potentially deadly nature of the disease.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 09, 2009 |
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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 ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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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
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Researcher discovers brain cells have 'memory'
As we look at the world around us, images flicker into our brains like so many disparate pixels on a computer screen that change every time our eyes move, which is several times a second. Yet we don't perceive ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Potential new HIV drug may help patients not responding to treatment
A potential treatment for HIV may one day help people who are not responding to Anti-Retroviral Therapy, suggests new research published tomorrow in The Journal of Immunology. Scientists looking at monkeys with the simian ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 31, 2009 |
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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.
Mar 11, 2009 |
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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
Mar 04, 2009 |
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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
Mar 02, 2009 |
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