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...shortage centers on rhesus macaque monkeys, which are used in more than half of primate research projects across the nation, according to Ronald C. Desrosiers, who directs of the New England Primate Research Center (NEPRC), which is part of HMS. Researchers favor rhesus monkeys for disease treatments tests because of their biological similarity to humans...
Gustavo M. Gonzalez ’02, a psychology concentrator, wrote his thesis about communication and mate choice among rhesus monkeys based on research he did at Hauser’s field site in Cayo Santiago, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico inhabited by monkeys but not humans. The days in Puerto Rico start at 7 a.m. with a boat ride to Cayo Santiago, after which students research on the island until 3 p.m. and then have free time for the rest...
...Hauser’s lab have studied several problems related to the question of what makes humans uniquely human, including ability to communicate and recognize numbers. Justin A. Junge ’03 assisted Jonathan I. Flombaum ’02, who wrote his thesis on the ability of rhesus monkeys to recognize numbers. “We found that primates can generally differentiate between one, two and three of something, but not between amounts greater than that,” Junge says. Junge and Flombaum, supervised by Hauser, figured this out by presenting the monkeys with varying numbers...
...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...
...then starts dividing and forming the specialized cells that turn miraculously into various tissues in the body. Most researchers studying these events used mice, but Thomson, after earning a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a veterinary-medicine degree, turned to more humanlike rhesus monkeys. Even so, it took him nearly four years to isolate and cultivate their stem cells...