News tagged with rhesus macaques

Monkeys with larger friend networks have more gray matter

New research in the UK on rhesus macaque monkeys has found for the first time that if they live in larger groups they develop more gray matter in parts of the brain involved in processing information on social ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Genomic sequence and comparison of two macaques reveal new insights into biomedical research

The South China Center for Innovative Pharmaceuticals, Sun Yat-Sen University, and BGI, the world's largest genomic organization, announced that they were among the research organizations from China, US and UK comprising ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

BGI develops first monkey exome sequencing platform for biomedical research

BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, has developed the first exome sequencing platform for the monkey, based on next-generation sequencing technology and monkey exome capturing array (MECA). MECA is a proprietary ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study reveals baby monkeys may be affected for life if separated from their mothers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by scientists in China has found that baby rhesus macaques stressed by being separated from their mothers remained anxious and had poor social skills even three years after separation. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Stop on red! The effects of color may lie deep in evolution...

(Medical Xpress) -- Almost universally, red means stop. Red means danger. Red means hot. And analyzing the results in the 2004 Olympics, researchers have found that red also means dominance. Athletes wearing red prevailed ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Deciding to stay or go is a deep-seated brain function

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even little kids picking strawberries do it.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Human prejudice has ancient evolutionary roots

The tendency to perceive others as "us versus them" isn't exclusively human but appears to be shared by our primate cousins, a new study led by Yale researchers has found.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study shows early brain effects of HIV in mouse model

A new mouse model closely resembles how the human body reacts to early HIV infection and is shedding light on nerve cell damage related to the disease, according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For the first time, monkeys recognize themselves in the mirror, indicating self-awareness (w/ Video)

Typically, monkeys don't know what to make of a mirror. They may ignore it or interpret their reflection as another, invading monkey, but they don't recognize the reflection as their own image. Chimpanzees ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Experimental Marburg vaccine prevents disease 2 days after infection

An experimental vaccine developed to prevent outbreaks of Marburg hemorrhagic fever continues to show promise in monkeys as an emergency treatment for accidental exposures to the virus that causes the disease. ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experimental treatment protects monkeys from lethal Ebola virus post-exposure

Scientists using tiny particles of genetic material to interfere in the replication process of the deadly Ebola virus have successfully prevented monkeys exposed to that virus from dying of hemorrhagic fever. The proof-of-concept ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Mother's flu during pregnancy may increase baby's risk of schizophrenia

Rhesus monkey babies born to mothers who had the flu while pregnant had smaller brains and showed other brain changes similar to those observed in human patients with schizophrenia, a study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Baby monkeys receive signals through their mother's breast milk

Among rhesus macaque monkeys, mothers who weigh more and have had previous pregnancies produce more and better breast milk for their babies than mothers who weigh less and are less experienced. Scientists ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

Love hurts: Why emotional pain really affects us

Have you ever felt overly upset by a social snubbing? Your genetics, not your friends, may be at fault.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0