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...Oregon Regional Primate Research Center are nothing more exotic than monkeys, one experiment performed here and reported in last week's Science had something in common with the Spielberg thriller: an animal, produced by genetic manipulation, like nothing else on Earth. Despite its utterly normal outward appearance, the Rhesus monkey known as ANDi bears an extra gene taken from, of all creatures, a jellyfish. And while so-called transgenic animals have been created before, this is the first time such a species-mixing experiment has been performed on a primate, the class of animals that includes human beings--a point...
...menstrual cycles, and their neurological and immune systems differ in important ways. Much better to have a more closely related animal with body systems that are more like ours--which is why primate center senior scientist Gerald Schatten and his colleagues decided to try manipulating the genes of the Rhesus monkey, a close cousin to humans and already the mainstay of many medical experiments...
...mice that are free of brain disease? You can't take it for granted that every medical advance in mice will also benefit people." But the evidence started mounting. Over the past three years, researchers have discovered that brain cells regenerate in primate-like tree shrews, marmoset monkeys and rhesus monkeys, all of which are closer to us on the evolutionary scale than are mice (except in Kansas). The real payoff came late last year, when Fred Gage at the Salk Institute and his colleagues in Sweden reported that nerve cells are regenerated in the human hippocampus (a portion...
...YORK: They may not be able to bang out the works of Shakespeare on the old Royal just yet, but primates are getting pretty good at math. A couple of rhesus monkeys at Columbia University have perfected the art of counting ?- up to nine, at least -? according to a study published Friday in the journal Science. "They share with humans the ability to master simple arithmetic on at least the level of a two-year-old child," said researcher Elizabeth Brannon...
...woman named Rihab Rashida Taha or, to the U.N. representatives who distrust her, "Dr. Germ." Little known until last week, when NBC Nightly News revealed her role, Taha was responsible for tests of anthrax and botulinum at Iraq's Salman Pak facility, first on rats and mice, then on rhesus monkeys, beagles and donkeys. Still unreleased videotapes seized by the U.N. two years ago show animals that had been exposed to germ agents writhing and dying in agony...