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...Monster Raving Loony Party, contenders sporting ridiculous names and deliberately nonsensical manifestos have taken part in many of the country's parliamentary, municipal and mayoral polls, and sometimes even won them. In the 2002 mayoral race in the port city of Hartlepool, for instance, a man dressed as a monkey and promising free bananas decisively beat Labour and Britain's two other leading parties, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. So it's not surprising that Ken Livingstone, the Labour politician aiming to win a third consecutive four-year term as London's mayor, hopes humor will help...
...over the top and produce a clichéd effect. The band tries, as it claims in the first track, to read the listener’s mind—but only the darkest, most painful, and most secret recesses of it. Take the track “Monkey Powder,” most memorable for its grating, repetitive electric guitar and use of bass chords over a monotonous drum beat. This could seem to be a lapse in the creativity and melodic capacity of the artists, but taken in the context of the whole album, it serves...
Traditionally, new vaccines are tested in mice, rabbits or, in the case of AIDS, monkeys. But animal testing is time-consuming, expensive, and controversial. The biggest bugaboo of all is translation. No matter how well an experimental vaccine works in animals, the leap to humans is riddled with uncertainty and unforeseeable complications. Last year's collapse of a late-stage AIDS vaccine trial involving thousands of volunteers is a case in point. The experimental vaccine used in the STEP study, co-sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the vaccine's creator, pharmaceutical giant Merck, looked promising in monkeys...
MIMIC's speed and flexibility makes it particularly attractive to AIDS vaccine researchers. As things stand, it takes months for potential AIDS vaccines to graduate from small-animal trials to monkey studies. "That takes a lot of time, and, with HIV, we don't have a lot of time," says Koff. "We asked the question is there a way to do it faster and take it to humans more quickly...
...gene is not found in any New World monkeys besides the owl monkey. It is found in three species of macaques—the Asian Old World monkeys—but not in sooty mangabeys, which are African Old World monkeys that are the closest relative to the macaques. Based on these facts, researchers estimated that the gene appeared between five and ten million years ago, Johnson said...