Monkey News

Posted October 1, 2002:

• Genetic Findings In Monkey Herpes Virus Could Aid Research In Human Cancer

Posted August 6, 2002:

• "Fowl-Howl" Ties Discovered Between Birds, Monkeys

Posted July 5, 2002:

• Monkeys That Drink Heavily Develop Signs Of Liver Disease, Wake Forest Study Shows

Posted June 25, 2002:

• Two New Monkey Species Discovered; Primates Found In Brazil's Amazon Rain Forest

Posted June 21, 2002:

• African Predator Rediscovered In Tanzania; After A 70 Year Absence, A Rare Animal Is Photographed

Posted May 31, 2002:

• Brain Signal Boosts As Monkey Nears Reward

Posted May 30, 2002:

• Wildmeat: Overhunting Threatens Species And People

Posted May 1, 2002:

• UMass Anthropoligist Investigates Dental Development And Body Size In Primates

Posted April 18, 2002:

• Scientists Push Back Primate Origins From 65 Million To 85 Million Years Ago

Posted April 12, 2002:

• Researchers Uncover Brain Patterns That Differentiate Humans From Chimpanzees

Posted April 3, 2002:

• Primate Bushmeat : Populations Exposed To Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses

Posted March 5, 2002:

• Two Viruses Team Up In West Nile Vaccine

Posted March 4, 2002:

• Gene Duplication Adapts To Changing Environment

Posted February 28, 2002:

• Human And Fly Studies Tally Good And Bad Mutations, Stress Ongoing Role Of Natural Selection

Posted February 1, 2002:

• Researchers Develop Specialized Cell Types From Embryonic Monkey Stem Cells

Posted January 21, 2002:

• Perception Is Stored In Single Neurons, German Researchers Find
• Gondwana Split Sorts Out Mammalian Evolution

Posted December 18, 2001:

• Scientists Milk Animals For Malaria Vaccine

Posted October 19, 2001:

• Earliest Evidence Of Lemurs Discovered In Pakistan, Far From Their Current Home, Science Reports

Posted October 16, 2001:

• Yale Researchers Develop Promising AIDS Vaccine

Posted October 15, 2001:

• Baboons Can Think Abstractly, In The First Study To Show That A Non-Human, Non-Ape Animal Shares A Central Aspect Of Human Intelligence

Posted September 11, 2001:

• From Embryo To Placenta, Gene Transfer In Primates A Success

Posted September 5, 2001:

• Brain Circuitry Involved In Language Reveals Differences In Man, Non-Human Primates

Posted July 11, 2001:

• Brain-Development Timeline For Mammalian Species

Posted June 20, 2001:

• New PET Machine Will Open Door To Cancer Research

Posted May 10, 2001:

• How Did We Get So Smart? Study Sheds Light On Evolution Of The Brain

Posted March 9, 2001:

• New Multiprotein AIDS Vaccine Prevents Disease In Monkeys

Posted January 30, 2001:

• Drug Decreases Blood Vessel Stiffness In Older Primates

Posted January 11, 2001:

• Oregon Health Sciences University Researchers Produce First Genetically Modified Monkey

Posted November 28, 2000:

• Simpler HIV Drug Regimen May Improve Results, Science Study On Monkeys Suggests

Posted November 16, 2000:

• Monkeys Control A Robot Arm Via Brain Signals

Posted November 7, 2000:

• Scientists Fear Loss Of Colobus Monkey Heralds Beginning Of "Extinction Spasm" Of Many West African Species

Posted October 17, 2000:

• NIDA Researchers Find That Animals Exposed To Marijuana's Active Component Will Self-Administer The Drug

Posted September 20, 2000:

• Promising HIV Vaccine Strategy Identified In Monkey Studies

Posted May 16, 2000:

• Images Of Evolution: DNA Leaves Fossils In The Dust

Posted April 10, 2000:

• Monkeys Pay One Another For Work

Posted April 6, 2000:

• Monkeys Pay One Another For Work

Posted March 17, 2000:

• Newly Discovered Fossils From China Shed Light On Common Ancestry Of Monkeys, Apes And Humans

Posted March 16, 2000:

• Researchers Discover Fossils Of Tiny, Thumb-Length Primates

Posted March 2, 2000:

• Study Suggests That Logging May Affect Monkey Health

Posted February 29, 2000:

• Baboons Have Voice And Communication But Not The "Theory Of Mind" To Understand How Their Communications Will Affect Others

Posted January 24, 2000:

• Genes Pertaining To "Maleness" Evolve More Rapidly Than Their Non-Sexual Counterparts

Posted January 10, 2000:

• New Study Shows It's More Than One, Two, Three For Rhesus Monkeys

Posted December 24, 1999:

• Oregon Health Sciences University Researchers Take Steps To Genetically Modify Monkeys For The Research Of Human Disease

Posted November 22, 1999:

• Lemur "Juliet" Dies In Madagascar

Posted November 9, 1999:

• Shedding Light On The Origin Of Primate Color Vision

Posted November 4, 1999:

• Lemur "Juliet" May Be New Subspecies; No Mate For "Romeo"

Posted October 20, 1999:

• A "Juliet" Is Found For The Rare Lemur Romeo

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