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...revelation made headlines a month ago: Thanks to a rhesus monkey named Godot, and his astounding good health in the face of repeated viral injections, researchers are increasingly optimistic about a new AIDS vaccine. Now, as scientists and activists descend on Philadelphia for the 2001 AIDS Vaccine conference, more details are emerging about this very welcome development. Researchers are pelted with questions: How has this vaccine kept Godot, a test subject at Emory University?s Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, so healthy, even as scientists injected him with deadly levels of the HIV virus? And, more important, given the same...
...contracting the disease. "This is one of those classic good news/ bad news stories," says Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, professor of medicine at Cornell Medical Center and senior scientist for programs at the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR). "On the one hand, it?s wonderful we can keep a monkey healthy even after he?s injected with dangerous levels of HIV. But on the other hand, we?re not talking about something that?s immediately transferable to humans." There?s also the issue of mutation, he adds. The virus is infamous for its ability to adjust to any attack...
...applying forces only a trillionth as strong as those the earth exerts on an apple, pull it apart like molecular Velcro. Why bother? To study how proteins and nucleic acids fold into their complex structures. That's a matter of considerable interest to drug designers, who tailor molecules to monkey-wrench the proteins that make us sick...
...mostly the brains of monkeys, not humans, that Goldman-Rakic studies. This presents certain advantages (monkey brains are extremely similar to ours, and more invasive studies are allowed) and certain challenges. How, for example, do you explore the memories of creatures that cannot speak...
...Davidson, meanwhile, is just on a long hitch doing monkey research for the Air Force. He?s vaguely rebellious in a Keanu Reaves kind of way, complaining about monkeys doing mens? jobs (a nod to "The Right Stuff") and zipping off in his space pod to save his favorite chimp, Pericles. But he couldn?t be less interested in the implied philosophical musings that come with the movie - and distinguished it from the mass of movies before or since - and on screen they suffer from lack of nourishment. (Wahlberg does manage a few good lines about how nutty this planet...