News tagged with macaques
New research confirms potential deadly nature of emerging new monkey malaria species in humans
Sep 09, 2009 |
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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.
Relief from itch seen in nerves; may aid treatment
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(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.
Researcher discovers brain cells have 'memory'
Apr 02, 2009 |
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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 ...
Potential new HIV drug may help patients not responding to treatment
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 31, 2009 |
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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 ...
Flossing monkeys 'proof' animals teach tool use
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Thai monkeys have been observed showing their young how to floss -- proof primates teach offspring to use tools, a Japanese researcher said Wednesday.
Rectal gel prevents transmission of AIDS-like virus in macaques
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 05, 2008 |
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The HIV drug tenofovir may prevent AIDS transmission when applied rectally as a gel, according to results from a macaque study published in PLoS Medicine.
