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Monkey See, Monkey Do, Depending on Age, Experience and Efficiency

Andy Fell — June 07, 2017 - 12:14pm

Wild capuchin monkeys readily learn skills from each other – but that social learning is driven home by the payoff of learning a useful new skill. It’s the first demonstration of “payoff bias” learning in a wild animal, and could inform whether and how animals can adapt to rapidly changing conditions.

Expert on Mental Function in Aging Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Andy Fell — October 17, 2016 - 11:11am

John Morrison, professor of neurology at the ��Ƶ, Davis, and director of the ��Ƶ National Primate Research Center, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific bodies.

HIV Vaccine Moves Toward Clinical Trials

Andy Fell — June 15, 2016 - 12:36pm

A vaccine for HIV developed by Oregon Health Sciences University in collaboration with the ��Ƶ National Primate Research Center is now moving towards clinical trials. The vaccine uses another virus, cytomegalovirus or CMV, as a “backbone” to carry small pieces of HIV into the body and arm the immune system.

Milk protein comparison unveils nutritional gems for developing babies

IET WebDev — March 16, 2015 - 10:15am

Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast-milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.

The research team, led by the ��Ƶ, Davis, came to this conclusion after developing a new technique for comparing the proteome — all detectable proteins — of human milk with the proteome of the rhesus macaque monkey.