... 's disease--plaques and neurofibrillary tangles--in a nonhuman primate," explains Walker. As many as five million Americans ... and to improve the health and well-being of humans and nonhuman primates. Today, the center, as one of only eight National Institutes ...
... compared the energy consumed by five different primate species while negotiating vertical and horizontal ... level changes within a chamber to derive the primates’ energy consumption. While climbing was not significantly ...
Studies with non-human primates have made major contributions to our understanding of the brain and will continue to be an important ...
... to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates. These findings, published June 20th in the open ... is involved in many of the more complex functions in both humans and other primates, including memory, attentiveness, thought processes ...
... sexes can recognize," she said. Lemurs, distant primate cousins of ours who split from the family tree before ...
... to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates. These findings indicate that some of these differences arose a very ...
... determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern Neotropical primates were as small as those of their early fossil simian counterparts ... that increased encephalization may have arisen at different points in the primate evolutionary tree, but this is the first clear demonstration ...
The trend toward larger brains relative to body size developed independently in isolated groups of primates, according to a new fossil analysis.
... is much more ancient than we realized." In addition to stretching the primate timeline, the specimens represent a new genus ... separate Anthrasimias from two other ancient lines of primates whose remains have been found at the same level of the Vastan ...
... for the AIDS viruses, such as the mangabeys and numerous other African primate species who have been found to harbor SIVs in the wild, remain ... of the biological basis by which sooty mangabeys and the numerous primate species that represent natural hosts for AIDS ...
... of wild bonobos hunting and eating the young of other primate species. "These findings are particularly relevant for the discussion ... of successful hunts in which bonobos captured and ate their primate prey. In two other cases, the bonobo hunting ...
A loophole in UK animal welfare laws that allows primates to be kept as household pets needs to be closed, an MP urges.
... ." During the early part of the Eocene epoch, primates were common in the tropical forests that covered most of North ... Texas provided a humid, tropical refuge for primates and other arboreal (tree-inhabiting) animals." The anthropologists ...
... other this week in a battle that will ultimately determine the future use of primates in medical research in Britain and the rest of the European ... states.'It is quite clear a serious battle over primate research is about to begin,' said Oxford neuroscientist Tipu ...
... feature of this species, and distinguishes them from nearly all other primates which have nails and not claws. The claws may be an adaptation to the mossy ... on the unusual infant caretaking behaviors exhibited by this primate, as well as the relationship between behavior and lunar cycles ...
