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A method to cure color blindness has been found
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A method to cure color blindness has been found

American scientists have found a way to cure color blindness for monkeys. And by curing blind people to distinguish red and blue, this advanced technique can also restor…

December 14, 2018
HIV-infected people of monkeys
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HIV-infected people of monkeys

UK scientists have found a new strain of HIV that can infect gorillas to humans. A French woman was infected with the virus.

December 14, 2018
Artificial hands controlled by thought
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Artificial hands controlled by thought

Scientists are testing a type of mechanical arm that can be controlled by thought. If successful, this would be a revolution for those who lost their arms or were paraly…

December 14, 2018
Eat a lot of old age, die early
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Eat a lot of old age, die early

For more than 20 years, monkeys that eat comfortably have a three times higher risk of death than those with restricted diets, a long-term study has just published.

December 14, 2018
Love makes children smarter
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Love makes children smarter

For some strange reason, it is always necessary to remind us that primates like us desperately need care.

December 14, 2018
New strategy to treat cocaine addiction
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New strategy to treat cocaine addiction

A new monkey study has found a way to treat cocaine addiction with an 'alternative' drug that mimics the effect of cocaine but is less addictive - this is similar to the…

December 14, 2018
New breakthrough to cure AIDS
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New breakthrough to cure AIDS

The AIDS century will soon be overpowered with a hybrid virus from recombinant methods, which can lead to a breakthrough in how to kill, or at least give better treatmen…

December 14, 2018
Successfully preserved frozen ovaries
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Successfully preserved frozen ovaries

On August 23, scientists from the Japan National Institute of Biomedical and Biological Sciences said they had succeeded in testing the ovaries of monkeys and frozen mar…

December 14, 2018
'Assassin' of HIV
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'Assassin' of HIV

In the race to find effective drugs against HIV, the Maryland team of scientists built a double-agent virus with a mission to find where HIV is hiding. They combine HIV…

December 14, 2018
Detecting 1918 virus secret weapon
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Detecting 1918 virus secret weapon

Scientists have successfully reproduced the killing process of the H1N1 virus and the 1918 Spanish flu virus. The flu has claimed more than 50 million lives. With this d…

December 14, 2018
HIV 'relatives' cause pandemic in African monkeys
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HIV 'relatives' cause pandemic in African monkeys

A virus that is related to HIV is spreading on a large scale in African gorillas. The culprit infecting them could be chimpanzees, the French scientists announced.

December 14, 2018
Young children recognize numbers very early
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Young children recognize numbers very early

Researchers at Duke University, USA, have done research to prove that Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and of course humans, too, have very early recognition of numbers.…

December 14, 2018