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Big Picture’s Monkeys

October 16, 2009 – 7:30 pm

The Big Picture blog as always has some great pictures, today some monkey ones included:
Gorilla getting a CT scan
Baby Gibbon
Hamadryas baboon
Monkey gathering (scrap) food

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Monkeybot

October 15, 2008 – 8:13 pm

Research released today shows that Macaques brains are extremely powerful. They were able to send brain signals through electrodes to a paralyzed wrist muscle. Impressive. The wrist was paralyzed using local anesthetic so that it was only temporary. Check the article for more details. They essentially made a monkeybot.

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Monkeys Lead The Way To Curing AIDS

February 29, 2008 – 9:13 pm

The Washington Post has the scoop:

A gene in Asian monkeys that may have evolved as protection against a group of viruses that includes HIV has been identified by Harvard Medical School researchers, who add that their finding suggests the current AIDS epidemic is not a new kind of scourge.

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