Forty-three primates remain on the loose Friday after escaping from a research center in a South Carolina town.
He suggests two other possible reasons for the practice. “Masturbation can lead to relaxation and reduced aggression, which may contribute to the maintenance of cohesion in these primate groups,” he says. “Second, those primates that have more time on their hands, maybe because they don...
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News from the molecular frontier. Review of Paternity in Primates: Genetic Tests and Theories R. D. Martin, A. F. Dixson, E. J. Wickings eds. Karger, 1992, xi + 287 pp, $198.50NoPeer Reviewed http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/38428/1/1350290407_ftp.pdfdoi:10.1002/ajp...
Primates are fascinating. They are intelligent, live in complex societies and are a vital part of the ecosystem. Lemurs, lorises, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys and apes are our closest biological relatives and just like them, humans are also primates. However, while the human population spread to...
Nucleic acid drug delivery systems are technologies that can deliver nucleic acid molecules, such as DNA or RNA, to target cells in order to modulate gene expression or produce therapeutic proteins. Nucleic acid drugs have the potential to treat a wide range of diseases, such as infectious diseas...
World's first interventional brain-computer interface experiment on non-human primates was successfully completed Thursday in Beijing, marking a leap forward in promoting brain science research, according to a report published on the website of Nankai Un
Joseph W. Kemnitz of the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center called the study "an important step" because it provides the first assessment of patterns of aging in large populations of nonhuman primates living in their natural environments. Kemnitz was not part of the research team. ...
A team of researchers have generated the first complete chromosome sequences from non-human primates. Published in Nature, these sequences uncover remarkable variation between the Y chromosomes of different species, showing rapid evolution, in addition t
Maternal response to mother–offspring separation in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) For management and/or research purposes, chimpanzee mothers and their offspring are often physically separated from one another at an earlier age than they... MA Bloomsmith,LR Tarou,SP Lambeth,... - 《Animal Wel...