Monkey News

Posted August 17, 2012:

• Brain's Mysterious Switchboard Operator Revealed

Posted August 13, 2012:

• How Computation Can Predict Group Conflict: Fighting Among Captive Pigtailed Macaques Provides Clues

Posted August 8, 2012:

• Test Vaccine Successfully Protects Monkeys from Nipah Virus

Posted August 7, 2012:

• Shedding New Light on How Jaws Evolve
• Searching for Tumors or Handguns Can Be Like Looking for Food

Posted August 5, 2012:

• Sequencing of Malaria Genomes Reveals Challenges, Opportunities in Battle Against Parasite

Posted July 31, 2012:

• Friends Help More Promptly, at Least in Monkeys

Posted July 26, 2012:

• Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior With Light
• First Photo Evidence of Snub-Nosed Monkey Species in China

Posted July 24, 2012:

• New Target for Vaccine Development in Abundant Immune Cells

Posted July 23, 2012:

• New Clue on How Brain Processes Visual Information

Posted July 19, 2012:

• Scientists Read Monkeys' Inner Thoughts: Brain Activity Decoded While Monkeys Avoid Obstacle to Touch Target

Posted July 18, 2012:

• Primate Behavior: Chimps Select Smart Tools, Monkeys Intentionally Beg
• Mouse With Human Immune System May Revolutionize HIV Vaccine Research
• Long-Term ADHD Drug Use Appears Safe

Posted July 17, 2012:

• Reconstructing the Diet of African Hominid Australopithecus Anamensis

Posted July 10, 2012:

• The Old Primates' Club: Even Male Monkeys Ride Their Fathers' Coattails to Success
• Rare Glimpse Into the Origin of Species

Posted July 4, 2012:

• Urban Athletes Show That for Orangutans, It Pays to Sway
• How Cooperation Can Trump Competition in Monkeys

Posted June 29, 2012:

• Insights Into Primate Diversity: Lessons from the Rhesus Macaque

Posted June 28, 2012:

• 'Blindsight' Used in Everyday Life Scenes: Subjects With Visual Impairment Turn Eyes to Motion, Brightness, and Color

Posted June 21, 2012:

• From the Mouths of Monkeys: Swab Technique Spots Tuberculosis in Non-Human Primates

Posted June 20, 2012:

• Out of the Mouths of Primates, Facial Mechanics of Human Speech May Have Evolved

Posted June 14, 2012:

• Regenerated Cells May Restore Vision After Corneal Dysfunction

Posted June 13, 2012:

• Inner Ear May Hold Key to Ancient Primate Behavior

Posted June 11, 2012:

• Immune Cells in the Gut May Improve Control of HIV Growth

Posted June 3, 2012:

• A Different Drummer: Engineers Discover Neural Rhythms Drive Physical Movement

Posted May 31, 2012:

• Monkey Lip Smacks Provide New Insights Into the Evolution of Human Speech

Posted May 30, 2012:

• Potential New HIV Vaccine/therapy Target

Posted May 23, 2012:

• Factors Behind Past Lemur Species Extinctions Put Surviving Species in 'Ecological Retreat'
• Genetic Study Sheds Light on Evolution and May Help Prevent Extinction of the Myanmar Snub-Nosed Monkey

Posted May 22, 2012:

• For Monogamous Sparrows, It Doesn't Pay to Stray (but They Do It Anyway)

Posted May 21, 2012:

• Method to Strengthen Proteins With Polymers
• What Baboons Can Teach Us About Social Status
• Rare Neurons Linked to Empathy and Self-Awareness Discovered in Monkey Brains

Posted May 20, 2012:

• Good News for Nanomedicine: Quantum Dots Appear Safe in Pioneering Study on Primates

Posted May 14, 2012:

• Nearly One Tenth of Hemisphere's Mammals Unlikely to Outrun Climate Change

Posted May 7, 2012:

• BPA Effects Seen in Monkey Mammary Glands

Posted May 3, 2012:

• How Mitochondrial Genes Are Passed from Mother to Child

Posted April 29, 2012:

• Orangutans Harbor Ancient Primate Alu

Posted April 18, 2012:

• Brain-Activated Muscle Stimulation Restores Monkeys' Hand Movement After Paralysis

Posted April 16, 2012:

• Baboons Display 'Reading' Skills, Study Suggests; Monkeys Identify Specific Combinations of Letters in Words

Posted April 12, 2012:

• Genetic Adaptation of Fat Metabolism Key to Development of Human Brain
• Do Monkeys Know What Others Need?

Posted April 11, 2012:

• Distinct Brain Cells Recognize Novel Sights

Posted April 9, 2012:

• Social Stress Changes Immune System Gene Expression in Primates

Posted March 29, 2012:

• Simple 3-D Grid Structure Underlying Complexity of Primate Brain

Posted March 26, 2012:

• Tagged Lice Help Researchers Study Social Interactions of Shy Brown Mouse Lemurs

Posted March 22, 2012:

• Do Animals Have Reflective Minds Able to Self-Regulate Perception, Reasoning, Memory?

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