News tagged with nonhuman primates
Designer RNA fights high cholesterol, researchers find
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Small, specially designed bits of ribonucleic acid (RNA) can interfere with cholesterol metabolism, reducing harmful cholesterol by two-thirds in pre-clinical tests, according to a new study by researchers at UT Southwestern ...
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Researchers find first conclusive evidence of Alzheimer's-like brain tangles in nonhuman primates
May 14, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have discovered the first conclusive evidence of Alzheimer's-like neurofibrillary brain tangles in an aged nonhuman primate. The unprecedented ...
Social support during breast-feeding helps humans have more children
Feb 13, 2009 |
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The fact that human mothers have support from family while they're breast-feeding may be a key strategy that enables humans to reproduce more rapidly than other primates, new research suggests. Social support helps mothers ...
Researchers develop first transgenic nonhuman primate model of Huntington's disease
May 18, 2008 |
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In the first study of its kind, researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, in collaboration with researchers from the Department of Human Genetics at Emory's School of Medicine, have developed ...
Researchers use eye tracking to detect mild dementia in humans (w/Podcast)
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, developed a test in nonhuman primates that is now using infrared eye tracking to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in humans. The researchers ...
Researchers propose ambitious new strategies for AIDS vaccine research
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, believe conventional vaccine strategies should not be the only avenue explored in the development of an effective AIDS vaccine. Based on studying ...
Human-like altruism shown in chimpanzees
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Jun 25, 2007 |
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Debates about altruism are often based on the assumption that it is either unique to humans or else the human version differs from that of other animals in important ways. Thus, only humans are supposed to act on behalf of ...
Vaccine for Ebola virus
Mar 31, 2008 |
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One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt ...
Scientists reaching consensus on how brain processes speech
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 26, 2009 |
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Neuroscientists feel they are much closer to an accepted unified theory about how the brain processes speech and language, according to a scientist at Georgetown University Medical Center who first laid the ...
Imitation promotes social bonding in primates
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Imitation, the old saying goes, is the sincerest form of flattery. It also appears to be an ancient interpersonal mechanism that promotes social bonding and, presumably, sets the stage for relative strangers ...
The common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes may have originated in Asia
Jul 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a new primate fossil in Myanmar (formerly Burma) lends weight to the hypothesis that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes (anthropoid primates) originated in Asia, and not in Africa. ...
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