Monkey News

Posted February 8, 2012:

• Tiny Primate Is Ultrasonic Communicator

Posted January 30, 2012:

• Researchers Rewrite Textbook on Location of Brain's Speech Processing Center

Posted January 26, 2012:

• Tracking the Birth of Evolutionary Arms Race Between HIV-Like Viruses and Primate Genomes

Posted January 20, 2012:

• Rare Miller's Grizzled Langur Rediscovered in Borneo

Posted January 15, 2012:

• Brain Circuits for Visual Categorization Revealed by New Experiments

Posted January 11, 2012:

• How the Brain Computes 3-Dimensional Structure

Posted January 10, 2012:

• Early Primate Had Transitional Lemur-Like Grooming Claw

Posted January 7, 2012:

• New Primate Species Discovered on Madagascar

Posted January 6, 2012:

• Scientists Map the Frontiers of Vision

Posted January 5, 2012:

• World’s First Primate Chimeric Offspring Produced: Research Demonstrates Not All Embryonic Stem Cells Are Equal
• Whiff of 'Love Hormone' Helps Monkeys Show a Little Kindness

Posted January 4, 2012:

• Benefits of Statin Therapy May Extend Beyond Lowering Lipids
• Experimental Vaccine Partially Protects Monkeys from HIV-Like Infection

Posted December 27, 2011:

• Members of Small Monkey Groups More Likely to Fight for Their Group

Posted December 20, 2011:

• Why Humans Are So Sociable These Days

Posted December 14, 2011:

• Pythons and People Take Turns as Predators and Prey

Posted December 13, 2011:

• Starving Orangutans Might Help to Better Understand Obesity and Eating Disorders in Humans

Posted December 7, 2011:

• Novel Drug Wipes out Deadliest Malaria Parasite Through Starvation
• Good or Bad: Surprises Drive Learning in Same Neural Circuits

Posted December 5, 2011:

• Neuroscientists Find Greater Complexity in How We Perceive Motion

Posted December 1, 2011:

• Savanna Chimps Exhibit Human-Like Sharing Behavior, Anthropologists Say

Posted November 30, 2011:

• Why Evolutionarily Ancient Brain Areas Are Important

Posted November 9, 2011:

• Obese Monkeys Lose Weight on Drug That Attacks Blood Supply of Fat Cells

Posted November 2, 2011:

• Analysis Reveals Malaria, Other Diseases as Ancient, Adaptive and Persistent Foes

Posted November 1, 2011:

• Abnormal Oscillation in the Brain Causes Motor Deficits in Parkinson's Disease

Posted October 20, 2011:

• Neuroscientists Unlock Shared Brain Codes Between People

Posted October 19, 2011:

• Antibody Treatment Protects Monkeys from Hendra Virus Disease

Posted October 17, 2011:

• Genomic Sequence and Comparison of Two Macaques Reveal New Insights Into Biomedical Research

Posted October 13, 2011:

• Lower Income Dads Encourage Exercise, Healthy Diet but May Give Wrong Dose of Medicine, Study Suggests

Posted October 11, 2011:

• First Monkey Exome Sequencing Platform for Biomedical Developed

Posted October 10, 2011:

• Experimental Vaccine Protects Monkeys from Blinding Trachoma

Posted October 5, 2011:

• Monkeys 'Move and Feel' Virtual Objects Using Only Their Brains

Posted September 28, 2011:

• Neural Linkage Between Motivation and Motor Functional Recovery Through Rehabilitative Training

Posted September 23, 2011:

• Monkeys Also Reason Through Analogy, Study Shows

Posted September 11, 2011:

• Researchers Team With Glowing Cats Against AIDS, Other Diseases; New Technique Gives Cats Protection Genes

Posted September 8, 2011:

• Weakened Malaria Parasites Form Basis of New Vaccine Strategy

Posted September 7, 2011:

• Researchers Eye Newer, Safer Birth Control Method

Posted August 30, 2011:

• New Insight Into Impulse Control

Posted August 15, 2011:

• Oldest Evidence of Nails in Modern Primates

Posted August 11, 2011:

• Engineers Redefine How the Brain Plans Movement

Posted August 10, 2011:

• Think Fast: The Neural Circuitry of Reaction Time

Posted August 1, 2011:

• Monkey See, Monkey Do? The Role of Mirror Neurons in Human Behavior

Posted July 27, 2011:

• Aging Brains Are Different in Humans and Chimpanzees; Evolution of Human Longevity Led to Both a Large Brain and Brain Shrinkage

Posted July 22, 2011:

• The Origin of Malaria: The Hunt Continues

Posted July 21, 2011:

• Whole Sequence Variation Map Reveals Insight Into Evolutionary Studies of Rhesus Macaque

Posted July 14, 2011:

• Your Brain on Androids
• First Adenovirus to Jump Between Monkeys and Humans Confirmed
• High Social Rank Comes at a Price, Wild Baboon Study Finds

Posted July 5, 2011:

• Rhesus Monkeys Appear to Have a Form of Self-Awareness Not Previously Attributed to Them, Research Suggests

Posted July 1, 2011:

• Solving the Puzzle of Cognitive Problems Caused by HIV Infection

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