News tagged with rhesus macaques
Potential new HIV drug may help patients not responding to treatment
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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 ...
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Rhesus macaque moms 'go gaga' for baby, too
Oct 08, 2009 |
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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.
Humans and monkeys share Machiavellian intelligence
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Oct 24, 2007 |
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When it comes to their social behavior, people sometimes act like monkeys, or more specifically, like rhesus macaques, a type of monkey that shares with humans strong tendencies for nepotism and political maneuvering, according ...
Researchers identify language feature unique to human brain
Mar 23, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have identified a language feature unique to the human brain that is shedding light on how human language evolved. The study marks the first use ...
Genetic variation cues social anxiety in monkeys and humans
Jan 14, 2009 |
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A genetic variation involving the brain chemical serotonin has been found to shape the social behavior of rhesus macaque monkeys, which could provide researchers with a new model for studying autism, social anxiety and schizophrenia. ...
Researchers find link between psychological stress and overeating
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May 13, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have found socially subordinate female rhesus macaques over consume calorie-rich foods at a significantly higher level than do dominant females.
Parasitic worm infections increase susceptibility to AIDS viruses
Jul 23, 2008 |
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Persons infected with schistosomes, and possibly other parasitic worm infections, may be more likely to become infected with HIV than persons without worm infections, according to a study published July 23rd in the open-access ...
Monkeys use 'baby talk' to interact with infants
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Aug 24, 2007 |
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Female rhesus monkeys use special vocalizations while interacting with infants, the way human adults use motherese, or “baby talk,” to engage babies’ attention, new research at the University of Chicago shows. ...
Reduced diet thwarts aging, disease in monkeys
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The bottom-line message from a decades-long study of monkeys on a restricted diet is simple: Consuming fewer calories leads to a longer, healthier life.
Analysis of rhesus monkey genome uncovers genetic differences with humans, chimps
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Apr 12, 2007 |
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An international consortium of researchers has published the genome sequence of the rhesus macaque monkey and aligned it with the chimpanzee and human genomes. Published April 13 in a special section of the journal Science, the an ...
Antiretroviral drugs may protect against sexual transmission of HIV
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Feb 05, 2008 |
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A new study in macaques suggests that antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV could also protect people from getting the AIDS virus, especially if two drugs are taken in combination before exposure to the virus occurs.
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