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2,702 results for: Monkeys
- Humans
Bionic women (and men) get closer to reality
Prosthetics and new therapies restore abilities to move, see, walk.
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New species of the year
More creatures, less Latin used to describe them.
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Evolving E. coli
25-year experiment sees real-time natural selection.
- Health & Medicine
Little Mind Benders
Parasites that sneak into the brain may alter your behavior and health.
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- Humans
Of Mice and Man
The lab mouse is being remodeled to better mimic how humans respond to disease.
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- Humans
Letters from the January 29, 2005, issue of Science News
Check it out In “Profiles in Melancholy, Resilience: Abused kids react to genetics, adult support” (SN: 11/20/04, p. 323), you report on a study in which it was found that female monkeys raised in a stressful situation drink alcohol to excess only if they possess just the short serotonin-transporter gene. If a positive correlation were […]
- Health & Medicine
Electrodes dupe brain into feeling touch
Stimulating the right neuron at the right time gave monkeys the sensation of contact.
- Health & Medicine
Hopes raised for Ebola treatment
Most monkeys given dual therapy survive infection with lethal virus.
- Humans
Letters from the May 21, 2005, issue of Science News
Rascal rabbits Evidence of animals sensing where people are looking and what they’re seeing is interesting yet hardly new (“Monkey See, Monkey Think: Grape thefts instigate debate on primate’s mind,” SN: 3/12/05, p. 163). For years, I have observed that wild rabbits will remain motionless as long as I stare in their direction. But as […]
