Monkeys Content

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 University of California, Davis, and director of the California 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 California 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 University of California, 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.