Humans march to a faster genetic 'drummer' than primates, UC Riverside research says
...to genetic disease, by comparing humans with other primate species. A third possible benefit is to underline the importance of protecting endangered primate species....Scientists fear new Ebola outbreak may explain sudden gorilla disappearance
...t is spread through the butchering and handling of primate bushmeat. The disease has been confirmed only in six African nations: the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Gabon, Sudan, Cte d'Ivoire, and Uganda. "This is clearly bad news, but it is not too late to act," said Christophe Boesch,...Biologists deciphering complex lemur scent language
...s represent sort of a more primitive branch of the primate tree, and they're more similar to species such as ...are primates whose ancestors branched off from the primate evolutionary family tree before monkeys and apes. Scordato has now graduated and is continuing her r...Study finds anti-HIV protein evolved millions of years before the emergence of AIDS
...obec3G genes with those of man's distantly related primate relatives, Malik and colleagues found, to their surprise, that the protein began to evolve in response to such Darwinistic pressure more than 30 million years before HIV-like viruses first infected primates, an event that occurred about a million yea...OHSU researchers discover possible method for early detection, prevention of premature birth
... proteins and peptides in both human and non-human primate amniotic fluid that signal an infection exists," s... to confirm that the data gathered about non-human primate biomarkers correlates to humans," added Gravett. The biomarkers identified in the animal studies was...HIV reveals evolution of a primate defense against intragenomic infiltrators
...rising. The gene, APOBEC3G, belongs to a family of primate genes that produce enzymes (in this case, APOBEC3G...e on APOBEC3G has been constant over the course of primate evolution suggests that another force is also acting on the gene. Sawyer et al. propose that this fo...Comparing primate genomes offers insight into human evolution
...old promising clues to our own identity. Comparing primate genomes is an approach that can help scientists un...e physical and biochemical traits that distinguish primate species. James Sikela and colleagues, for example, collected DNA from humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, ...Monkey business: Studies show tiny callimicos have unusual characteristics
...ring the dry season, making them the only tropical primate species to subsist on this food source for part of...ingle offspring twice annually while their closest primate relatives marmosets, tarmarins and lion tarmarins give birth to twins once a year. Porter's findi...Experimental smallpox DNA vaccine protects primates from lethal monkeypox
...s. Monkeypox currently provides the best nonhuman primate model of an orthopoxvirus infection. According to Hooper, the four-gene combination DNA vaccine (known as 4pox) had already been tested extensively in mice, where it protected 100 percent of the animals from challenge. It had also been shown to eli...... hypothesis that MT evolved early in the course of primate evolution when our small, long-nosed, bewhiskered ...go. The subject of the study was a small nocturnal primate with large eyes called the galago, or bush baby. They found that the bush baby's MT region is organi...Researchers find no safe place to sit in California tick-infested forest
...each activity, in scenes strikingly reminiscent of primate grooming behavior, the researchers meticulously picked off and counted the ticks on their clothing and bodies. They also used an adhesive lint roller to pick up ticks that might otherwise have escaped their attention. All told, they found a total of ...Scientists compare rat genome with human, mouse
...age, which gave rise to the rat and mouse, and the primate lineage, which gave rise to humans, diverged about... genome changes, was found to be much lower in the primate lineage, indicating that evolutionary change has occurred at a faster rate in rodents than in primat...Primate viruses transmitted to people through bushmeat
...cipants reported having some exposure to non-human primate blood, which occurred primarily through hunting an...s being infected with viruses from three different primate species, which included De Brazza's guenon, mandrill and gorilla. De Brazza's and mandrill are also ...Experimental smallpox vaccine protects against monkeypox in nonhuman primates
...rs, monkeypox currently provides the best nonhuman primate model of an Orthopoxvirus infection. MVA is made from the same Vaccinia virus present in the Dryvax product. The difference is that MVA is extremely attenuated, or weakened, so it causes no adverse effects--even when given in high doses to immune-de...Rwanda's primate-rich forests now a national park
One of the world's great centers of primate diversity is now a national park, created in one o... park is recognized as one of the richest mountain primate communities in Africa, home to chimpanzees, l'hoest's monkeys, grey-cheeked mangabeys, and others. T...Human evolution at the crossroads: Integrating genetics and paleontology
... developmental genetics, quantitative genetics and primate evolution so that they could share the same stage ...netics have now made this method more feasible for primate studies." Research on early hominids, she argues, has benefited from an abundance of new fossil find...Rutgers researcher offers a new perspective on human evolution
...ortant limitations as models for human or nonhuman primate development, Chiu noted that historical uses of mice in the laboratory have given EvoDevo researchers a head start. "There is already a substantial amount of information available on mouse developmental genetics," she said. "Modern developmental ge...New evidence suggests that monkey thought extinct still exists
... monkey were indeed extinct, it would be the first primate to have disappeared in 200 years. McGraw has spent...cGraw. "But everyone who knows anything about this primate says it's definitely a Miss Waldron's." Two years ago, an Ivorian hunter gave McGraw the skin of a m...Primate testes grafted into mice rapidly produce fertile sperm
...a, Davis, describe a technique that yields fertile primate sperm when tissue from the testes of young rhesus monkeys are grafted into mice. The research team, headed by Dr. Ina Dobrinksi of the Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research in the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylva......the first time anyone has imaged an awake nonhuman primate in response to emotionally arousing stimuli; it is...the scientists found. "The benefit of the nonhuman primate model is that we can control and know the developmental and social histories of our study subjects, ...