No AIDS-related viruses or chimpanzee DNA found in 1950's-era polio vaccine
...ine that all of the Wistar samples were grown in monkey cell cultures rather than chimpanzee cell cultures." "We want to thank Dr. Claudio Basilico and the Wistar external AIDS/Poliovirus Advisory Committee, as well as the laboratories who generously donated their resources to this project,...Scientists reveal new HIV vaccine target
...O'Connor studied rhesus macaques infected with the monkey equivalent of HIV at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center in Madison. Two weeks after infection and before the immune response fully developed, the virus remained unchanged from the stock used to infect the animals. Shortly thereafter, the......entists who conducted an exhaustive search for the monkey said five decades of warnings did little to save the monkey from extinction by hunting and habitat loss. "We suggest that the lack of recent primate extinction......n or behavior during the course of the study, each monkey was trained to perform consistently on a hand-reach task requiring them to pick-up food treats out of recessed wells. They were also analyzed on a Parkinsonian clinical rating scale (CRS), an observational assessment of movement analogous to one use...Simpler HIV drug regimen may improve results, Science study on monkeys suggests
...their colleagues infected rhesus macaques with the monkey version of HIV. Using animals instead of humans meant that the scientists could study a genetically similar group of individuals and infect them all at the same time, with a known strain of the virus. Scientists have reported previously that interrup...First gene therapy to calm pigs' out-of-sync hearts
...es a protein that's the biological equivalent of a monkey wrench, blocking a step in an adrenalin-triggered set of reactions that normally speed heart rate. At the start of the study, the researchers primed 10 pig hearts with agents that increased their uptake of the gene and its carrier system. They then ...Vanderbilt neuroscientists identify 'oops center' in the brain
...ot appeared on the periphery of its vision. If the monkey shifted its gaze to the new spot, it was rewarded ...s, the central spot reappeared during the time the monkey was preparing to shift its gaze to the peripheral spot. In these cases, the monkey was rewarded when...NICHD funded researchers first to genetically modify non human primate
...egan by adding the gene for GFP to some 224 rhesus monkey egg cells. Then, using a technique known as intra...e, only one carried the inserted DNA. This infant monkey was dubbed "ANDi," a reverse acronym for "inserted DNA." Two of the stillborn animals also carried ...First genetically modified monkey, reported in Science, may promise medical advances for humans
...be's Acrobat Reader by clicking here . A baby monkey carrying an extra bit of DNA--described in the 12 ...rds for "inserted DNA," the active, healthy rhesus monkey received an extra gene while he was still an unfertilized egg, making him the world's first genetica...Baboon studies suggest strategies for coping with stress
...ne levels than do subordinates. But throwing a new monkey in the mix sends stress hormones soaring as troop members jockey for dominance. Have you hugged your rat today? When Sapolsky is not in Africa watching baboons behaving badly, he studies stressed-out rats in his lab at Stanford, where he is a pr...New prime-boost HIV vaccine strategy shows promise in monkeys
...virus containing components of HIV and the related monkey virus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). SHIV mimics HIV infection and causes serious illness in macaque monkeys. The hybrid virus allows researchers to study the reactions of the immune system to the vaccines and the virus. In the study reporte...Why monkeys don't hear as well as humans
SEATTLE, Wash. - If a monkey could talk - he'd probably say, "Huh? Speak up!" N...f biological physics - is providing answers to why monkey ears, while so similar to our own, work differently. In a paper being presented Wednesday afternoon......ll remaining, the habitat of the rare lion tamarin monkey is threatened by agricultural land use, including dairy farming, coffee plantations, and pasture burning, inside the Forest. The authors write in the report, "Over the long term, with considerable research and experimentation, most agriculture...Earliest chewing herbivore ever found spurred vertebrate life on land, scientists find
...l of Suminia looks something like that of a little monkey or a rodent, with huge eyes and very impressive teeth. This herbivore lived during the Upper Permian period of the Paleozoic era some 260 million years ago, about 50 million years before dinosaurs. The fossil specimens of Suminia were found in an are...School kids as master gardeners
...ounty Florida, youll find the usual set of swings, monkey bars and slides. Youll also find something else, more than 30 raised-bed gardens complete with ripening tomatoes, pole beans, assorted herbs and enough other healthy looking vegetables to make any home gardener envious. Planted and tended by students......mes during pregnancy." Study subjects were rhesus monkey infants whose mothers consumed a moderate dose of alcohol either continuously or during the human equivalent of the first or last two trimesters of pregnancy. (Moderate drinking in humans is defined as 7 to 14 drinks per week, or 1 to 2 drinks per d...From embryo to placenta, gene transfer in primates a success
...erry the gene into the cells of early-stage rhesus monkey embryos. The vector, Golos says, is stripped of di...earch Center reported the birth of a single rhesus monkey carrying transgenic DNA. Although the Oregon monkey carried the foreign DNA, the introduced DNA did ...Stanford engineer studies neural prosthetics
...a cursor called a prosthetic icon. Eventually, the monkey was able to control the icon by thought alone. Pre... monkey, which was trained and tested by Meeker. A monkey was chosen because, unlike rats and other laboratory animals, monkeys share with humans the ability ...Cloning primates is turning out to be a real challenge
A HIGH percentage of cloned monkey embryos that look healthy are really a "gallery of horrors" deep within, says a researcher at Advanced Cell Technology, the company that last month published the first paper on cloned human embryos. This could mean that there is something unique ab......s. The researchers were also able to show that the monkey brains actually use the features learned in this experiment to recognize objects. After training the animals were able to identify "matching" faces, i.e. faces with similar features. The Tbingen group concludes that there are apparently single neuron...