Duke team seeks novel vaccine strategy for HIV
...V infection," Letvin said. "Any successes in these monkey studies should rapidly translate into success inhu... AIDS," he said. "We can look at newvaccines in a monkey and can measure antibodies and T cell responses, but thechallenge remains in seeing how effective th...Study to test whether antibiotics can reduce heart disease risk
...erosis, finding that first the pigeon and then the monkey wereideal animal models that would develop the disease when fed a typical Americandiet. Wake Forest research helped pin down the role of various dietary fats andcholesterol in the development of atherosclerosis. Despite the research, scientis...NYU researchers uncover the neurobiology of decision-making
...lly carry information about the amount of reward a monkey expects to receive for making the movement. They found that theactivity of these neurons was, like the behavior of the monkey, not predictablesimply from the appearance of the visual world, but reflected the value themonkey placed on the movement. Gl...Health services and local authorities can work together to help prevent playground injuries
...g the depth of bark in the play area and replacing monkey bars' (overhead horizontal ladders) with a rope climbing frame. Injuries in playgrounds where changes had been made fell from 53 in the 18 months before changes to 21 in the 18 months after. There was only a small fall from 35 to 28 in control playg...