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1,437 results for: Primates

  1. Cries and Greetings

    Baboon intimacy and detachment present vexing clues.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Broken Weapon: Mutation disarms HIV-fighting gene

    A gene that once produced a small protein able to prevent HIV from infecting cells now lies unusable in the human genome.

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  3. Animals

    Dogged Dieting: Low-cal canines enjoy longer life

    The first completed diet-restriction study in a large animal shows that labrador retrievers fed 25 percent less food than those allowed to eat as much as they desired tend to live longer and suffer fewer age-related diseases.

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  4. Animals

    Leave It to Evolution: Duplicated gene aids odd monkey diet

    A duplicated gene that has rapidly evolved helps certain monkey species thrive on a diet of leaves.

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  5. First gene-altered primate beats the odds

    Oregon researchers have slipped a jellyfish gene into a rhesus monkey to create the first genetically modified primate.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    What Activates AIDS?

    New studies suggest that a natural process called immune activation—the signaling that alerts immune cells of foreign invaders—plays a key role in explaining why infection with the human immunodeficiency virus progresses to AIDS more quickly in some people than in others.

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  7. Embryo stem cells turned to blood

    Human embryonic stem cells may provide a new source of blood and bone marrow.

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  8. Biology of rank: Social status sets up monkeys’ cocaine use

    Male monkeys' position in the social pecking order influences their brain chemistry in ways that promote either resistance or susceptibility to the reinforcing effects of cocaine.

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  9. Brains show evolutionary designs

    Mammal species exhibit basic types of brain design from which they have evolved a wide array of brain sizes, according to a new analysis.

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  10. Animals

    Crows appear to make tools right-handedly

    A study of 3,700 leaf remnants from crows making tools suggests that the birds prefer to work "right-handed."

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  11. Health & Medicine

    HIV-related viruses still cross species line

    Various potentially dangerous strains of simian immunodeficiency virus exist in wild primates in Africa and are still being spread among people who hunt the animals for meat.

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  12. Baboon rumps signal quality of motherhood

    The size of the swellings on a female baboon’s rump match her physical prowess for motherhood, a rare case of reproductive-quality advertisement in females.

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