• 多能干细胞疗法在猴子身上获得成功

    14-05-19 Researchers have shown for the first time in an animal that is more closely related to humans that it is possible to make new bone from stem-cell-like induced pluripotent(多能的) stem cells (iPSCs) made from an individual animal's own skin cells....

  • 阿扎拉枭猴不会发生“婚外情”

    14-03-20 True monogamy(一夫一妻制) is rare in the animal kingdom. Even in species that appear to mate for life, genetic maternity and paternity tests have revealed that philandering(玩弄女性,调情) often takes place. Yet a new study by University of Penn...

  • 猴子会巧用工具外形

    13-02-28 Bearded capuchin monkeys deliberately place palm nuts in a stable position on a surface before trying to crack them open, revealing their capacity to use tactile information to improve tool use. The results are published February 27 in the open acce...

  • 猴子在交配时会避开旁观者

    12-10-31 Monkeys shy away from bystanders during copulation(交配) , irrespective of the bystanders' gender or rank. The new study, by Anne Overduin -- de Vries and her team from the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands, also suggests that...

  • 科学家利用光线控制猴子大脑和行为

    12-07-27 Researchers reporting online on July 26 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have for the first time shown that they can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells. The...

  • 科学家成功解读猴子的内心想法

    12-07-20 Anyone who has looked at the jagged(锯齿状的) recording of the electrical activity of a single neuron in the brain must have wondered how any useful information could be extracted from such a frazzled(疲惫的) signal. But over the past 30 years,...

  • 黑猩猩会挑选重量合适的工具砸坚果

    12-07-19 Chimpanzees use weight to pick the best tool, and monkeys beg more when they're paid attention to, as reported in two independent research reports published July 18 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. In the chimp study, researchers found that the...

  • 朝三暮四

    12-02-08 In the Spring and Autumn Period, a man in the state of Song raised monkeys. The monkeys could understand what he said. As the man became poor, he wanted to reduce the monkeys' food. He first suggested that he give them three acorns(橡子) in the mo...

  • 某人类抗体使猴子免受亨德拉病毒侵扰

    11-10-20 A human antibody given to monkeys infected with the deadly Hendra virus completely protected them from disease, according to a study published by National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their collaborators. Hendra and the closely related...

  • 墨西哥逮捕猴子走私者 腰间藏18只伶猴

    10-07-20 Mexican authorities have arrested a man who was trying to smuggle 18 small monkeys into the country by carrying them in his clothing. 墨西哥当局逮捕一位男子,该男子将18只小猴藏于衣服中,试图带它们走私入境。 The monkeys were rolled up in socks and sl...