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  Disaster Map Predicts Bleak Future for Mammals

  December 13, 2012 — Mammals could be at a greater risk of extinction due to predicted increases in extreme weather conditions, according to a new ... > full story
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  Rhesus Monkeys Cannot Hear the Beat in Music

  December 13, 2012 — Beat induction, the ability to pick up regularity -- the beat --  from a varying rhythm, is not an ability that rhesus monkeys possess, researchers have ... > full story
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  How Our Sense of Touch Is a Lot Like the Way We Hear

  December 11, 2012 — Researchers have found that the timing and frequency of vibrations produced in the skin when exploring surfaces play an important role in how humans use the sense of touch to gather information, ... > full story
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  Sexual and Social Behavior Modified by Serotonin System Drugs

  December 11, 2012 — Drugs that bind to specific serotonin receptors in the brain can both improve and impair female sexual function in non-human ... > full story
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  Stem Cell Research Provides Hope for Infertile Cancer Survivors: Transplanted Stem Cells Could Preserve Male Fertility

  December 10, 2012 — A professor has demonstrated in rhesus monkeys that it is possible to remove testicular stem cells prior to chemotherapy, freeze them and later, after cancer treatments, transplant the cells where ... > full story
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  Monkey Business: What Howler Monkeys Can Tell Us About the Role of Interbreeding in Human Evolution

  December 7, 2012 — Did different species of early humans interbreed and produce offspring of mixed ancestry? Recent genetic studies suggest that Neanderthals may have bred with anatomically modern humans tens of ... > full story
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  Vaginal Microbicide Gel May Offer a Promising Strategy for Prevention and Protection Against HIV Transmission

  December 6, 2012 — A new study shows that a microbicide gel is highly effective in block infection by the AIDS virus in a non-human primate model. Scientists have described the gel's key ingredient, which are small ... > full story
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  Impacts of Climate Change on Rare Tropical Plants Expected to Vary Considerably

  December 6, 2012 — New research has found that the impacts of climate change on rare plants in tropical mountains will vary considerably from site to site and from species to ... > full story
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  Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons Rescue Motor Defects in Parkinsonian Monkeys

  December 3, 2012 — Researchers have derived dopaminergic neurons from bone marrow stem cells in ... > full story
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  How, in the Animal World, a Daughter Avoids Mating With Her Father: Paternal 'Voice' Recognition

  November 29, 2012 — Paternal recognition – being able to identify males from your father’s line – is important for the avoidance of inbreeding, and one way that mammals can do this is through ... > full story

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