From lemurs to gorillas, new book explains primate anatomy
...murs and other prosimians,as well as its extensive primate fossil collection developed by Simons. Forexample,...r the tarsier -- a small, round-faced, goggle-eyed primate foundon islands in Southeast Asia -- is to be ranked with higher primates such asmonkeys. "L...Hepatitis E virus infection may be widespread in rats
... Purcell. Currently,scientists must use expensive primate models to study the virus. "Rat HEV has probably been around a long time," says Dr. Purcell. "We still donot know the source of the high prevalence of HEV antibodies in humans. Thepossibility that the rat virus plays a role bears further study. ...Yerkes researchers find primate face recognition can be purely visual
...rentfamilies which make up the social fabric of a primate community." Parr and de Waal's data suggest that chimpanzees are as good at recognizingfaces, seeing similarities and differences between them, as we are. Thatchimpanzees can do so may help their survival in ways that are not yet fullyunderstood,......highestresolution ever achieved in pictures of the primate brain. The magneticresonance "shots" are taken while the monkey is viewing rotating patterns orpictures of conspecifics. The anesthetized macaques are immobilized in anupright, seated position inside the magnetic resonance tube with the aid ofbandage...Walker named a Fellow of the British Royal Society
...es andhumans. His research involves searching for primate and human fossils in rocksdated from about 30 million to 1 million years ago and conducting laboratoryanalyses of the fossils to extract as much environmental and behavioralinformation from them as possible. He pioneered the study of living primates......l data showing the safety of VNP20009 in non-human primate models. Previous studies in mice have demonstrated that VNP20009 is more than 10,000 times less toxic than the wild-type Salmonella strain from which it is developed. Additionally, the studies showed that the TAPET bacteria were rapidly cleared from ......auses fatal anemia in domestic cats, and fortype D primate retroviruses, a family of viruses that cause severeimmunodeficiencies in primates and that have been found in numerous AIDSpatients, particularly in Africa. Results of those studies are awaitingpublication....NIAID-Supported Scientists Discover Origin Of HIV-1
...cientists suspectedthat the virus descended from a primate species, only three chimpanzees infectedwith viruses related to HIV-1 had been documented, and one of these virusescorrelated only weakly with HIV-1. When Dr. Hahn and her collaborators recently identified a fourth chimpanzeeinfected with SIVcpz,...New Clues To Evolution Of Human Brain
...onitoringbiological activity. For that reason, the primate brain has served as the modelfor understanding some of the finer aspects of human brain performance. Functional MRI, however, can be used repeatedly on human subjects withoutcausing harm or relying on invasive procedures. Plus, the resolution is so ...Monkeys Have Numerical Abilities, Two Columbia Psychologists Report
...e ask a lot, cognitively speaking, ofour non-human primate subjects." Over the course of learning 35 ...ers of objects without counting? Could anon-human primate learn to match two different pictures of three objects, onecontaining, for example, three circles, t...News Backgrounder: Duke Primate Center Successfully Fosters Mysterious Aye-Ayes
...ture that easily wins the contest forthe strangest primate on earth. The nocturnal aye-aye resembles a cross betweena bat, a beaver and a raccoon. It has been compared to a gremlin, a gargoyle,and even the fabled Jabberwocky with its "slithy toves." So queer is the aye-aye that when it was discovered...Social Disruption Leads To Shorter Survival In Monkeys With AIDS
...d with the simian immunodeficiency virus from four primate centers around the United States. The monkeys had been subjects in a variety of studies designed to understand how the virus, which is similar to HIV, leads to AIDS. The researchers also collected data on how often, and when, the monkeys' housing c...Fortified Drink Improves Third World Nutrition
...ell, named for Derek Bryceson, the late husband of primate researcher Jane Goodall, who lives in Tanzania and is a professor-at-large at Cornell. "Whereas other researchers stress megadoses of particular nutrients to relieve this deficiency or that deficiency, this approach can address several deficiences," ......, she explains. "This is particularly important in primate females because of the incredible demands in raising offspring," says Kramer. "Being a mother requires a great deal of energy. If animals can gather the necessities of life efficiently, they have more energy to devote to their offspring or to have ...Colon Cancer Linked To Genes, Not Lifestyle
... The UW Primate Center is one of seven primate research centers in the U.S. supported by the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health. It is a base for local, national and international research in ...Widespread Genus Of Monkeys Gives Up Genealogical Secrets To Columbia Researchers
...s -- the new work will serve as a road map toAsian primate evolution, and to the evolution of many other mamm...ing decipher the movements of two other widespread primate groups, the leafmonkeys and the gibbons, the researchers said. "With each successive genus th...Colorado State Anthropologist Finds Fossil Treasures In Africa
...s and frogs as well as a complete skull of anadult primate and the jawbone of a juvenile primate believed to be ancient ancestors of present-day baboons. The vast collection of fossils is one of t...Researchers Discover First Animal Strain Of Hepatitis E Virus
...ntly, scientists must use expensive primate models to study the virus. "The possibility that swine hepatitis E virus may infect humans also raises a public health concern regarding the use of pig organs in human tra......id, pointing to honey bees, ants and some bird and primate species. "Very different species have evolved similar communication signals to ensure survival, " he said. "In the case of the mole-rats and social insects, if the foragers don't share their knowledge, the rest of the colony may starve -- and fai...