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Scientists Unlock Potential of Frog Skin to Treat Cancer
June 6, 2011 — Scientists have discovered proteins in frog skins which could be used to treat cancer, diabetes, stroke and transplant patients by regulating the growth of blood ... > full story -
Deciding to Stay or Go Is a Deep-Seated Brain Function, Monkey-Watching Researchers Find
June 6, 2011 — Foraging creatures decide at some point that the food source they're working on is no richer than the rest of the patch and that it's time to move on and find something better. Researchers have now ... > full story -
Monkeys Can Play Monday Morning Quarterback, Too
May 25, 2011 — Regret has long been viewed as an exclusively human thought, one which helps prevent us from repeating bad choices but becomes debilitating when it triggers obsessive thoughts about past actions. Now ... > full story -
Discovery of Canine Hepatitis C Virus Opens Up New Doors for Research on Deadly Human Pathogen
May 23, 2011 — In a new study, researchers report the discovery of a novel hepatitis C-like virus in dogs. The identification and characterization of this virus gives scientists new insights into how hepatitis C in ... > full story -
Anthropologist Discovers New Fossil Primate Species in West Texas
May 16, 2011 — A physical anthropologist has announced the discovery of a previously unknown species of fossil primate, Mescalerolemur horneri, in the Devil's Graveyard badlands of West ... > full story -
Monkey Studies Reveal Promising Vaccine Approach for HIV
May 11, 2011 — Researchers have developed a vaccine candidate in rhesus macaque monkeys that may eventually lead to a vaccine against Human Immunodeficiency Virus ... > full story -
Antibodies Help Protect Monkeys from HIV-Like Virus, Scientists Show
May 5, 2011 — Using a monkey model of AIDS, scientists have identified a vaccine-generated immune-system response that correlates with protection against infection by the monkey version of HIV, called simian ... > full story -
Monkeys, Too, Can Recollect What They've Seen, Study Suggests
April 28, 2011 — It's one thing to recognize your childhood home when you see it in a photograph and quite another to accurately describe or draw a picture of it based on your recollection of how it looked. A new ... > full story -
How TRIM5 Fights HIV: Scientists Discover Mechanism of Protein That Makes Certain Monkeys Resistant
April 20, 2011 — Thanks to a certain protein, rhesus monkeys are resistant to HIV. Known as TRIM5, the protein prevents the HI virus from multiplying once it has entered the cell. Researchers in Switzerland have now ... > full story -
Monkeys Provide Malaria Reservoir for Human Disease in Southeast Asia
April 7, 2011 — Monkeys infected with an emerging malaria strain are providing a reservoir for human disease in Southeast Asia, according to new research. The study confirms that the species has not yet adapted to ... > full story -
Face Time With a Female Aids Males Bent on Monkey Business
April 5, 2011 — The time males spend around a prospective mate might be the key to detecting subtle sexual signals that show which females are fertile and which are not, according to a new study by biologists and ... > full story -
Proboscis Monkeys Regurgitating Their Food, Like Cows
March 30, 2011 — A previously unknown behavior pattern is only observed in a large animal very rarely – which is why new videos are nothing short of a sensation: They show proboscis monkeys regurgitating, ... > full story
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