A brand new research revealed drastic discount of deaths of considered one of Africa's rarest primates, the Zanzibar purple colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii), adopted the set up of 4 speedbumps alongside a stretch of street the place the species continuously crossed.

New analysis exhibits that an experimental HIV vaccine technique works in non-human primates. Within the research, rhesus macaque monkeys produced neutralizing antibodies in opposition to one pressure of HIV that resembles the resilient viral type that mostly infects individuals, referred to as a Tier 2 virus.

New analysis elucidates the mechanism of sexual transmission of filoviruses, which have been proven to persist within the testes and different immune privileged websites. Sexual transmission of filoviruses was first reported in 1968 after an outbreak of Marburg virus illness and not too long ago brought on flare-ups of Ebola ...

Primates are fascinating. They're clever, reside in complicated societies and are an important a part of the ecosystem. Lemurs, lorises, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys and apes are our closest organic kin and similar to them, people are additionally primates. Nonetheless, whereas the human inhabitants unfold to all corners of the earth, ...