Now scientists at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have shown that's what happens, at least in monkeys.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently testing some of these products in monkeys.
Liraglutide does not boost thyroid cancer risk in monkeys even when they are given enormous doses, he says.
His device has worked in rodents and monkeys so far, and it is now being tested more extensively in monkeys.
He next plans to use lab-made tissue and see if he can successfully treat a degenerative, blindness-causing eye disease in monkeys.
Based on experiments such as these, de Waal came to believe that the sense of fairness observed in monkeys is egocentric.
The equivalent virus in monkeys is called SIV, or simian immunodeficiency virus.
Experiments carried out at Erasmus University in the Netherlands have shown that a coronavirus taken from SARS patients produces SARS-like symptoms in monkeys.
Merck says its tests of DPP-4 inhibitors that also hit related enzymes turned up the side effect in monkeys where its own experiments did not.
Mr. ANDREW FIRE (Scientist, Stanford University Medical School): Of course, you know, therapy in monkeys is very useful, but in people it's going to be another question.
" Adds Donald Ingram, who studies for the National Institute on Aging whether ultralow-calorie diets slow aging in monkeys:"I think increasing maximum life span by 25 to 30 years is possible.
The concept was so far off the beaten track, hardly anyone paid attention at first, but his recent tests of the vaccine in monkeys are generating excitement among the few researchers who have seen the data.
Dr Iacoboni discovered that the mirror neurons involved in grasping the intentions of others are in part of the right hemisphere that corresponds to Broca's area in the left hemisphere, and both also correspond with mirror-neuron sites in monkeys.
Experiments in monkeys suggest that an AIDS vaccine developed by Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) may work better when a vaccine invented by Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ) is used as a booster shot.
After three months the level of dopamine in their brains had dramatically increased and were similar to those found in younger monkeys.
Laze by the pool, indulge in a long lunch while monkeys cavort in the trees and knock back a coconut feni or two (the local Goan firewater), and you will truly appreciate the meaning of a good Goan susegad.
In the 1950s, University of Wisconsin at Madison professor Harry Harlow was raising the monkeys in his lab.
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Harvard neurobiology professor Margaret Livingstone found in her research on macaque monkeys that neurons in the brain respond to exaggerated features huge eyes or tiny noses more than to common ones.
There could very well be a difference in efficacy between monkeys and people too.
And one of the things they show here is a difference in efficacy between monkeys and mice.
Seven months later, they put a version of the AIDS virus that affects monkeys in the animals' rectums.
Gratifyingly for Dr Allman's theory, in both owl monkeys and titi monkeys, males live about 20% longer than females.
In studies of monkeys, Galvus and another DPP-4 inhibitor being developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca have caused skin lesions.
Once he was searched, it was discovered that he had hidden 18 titi monkeys in a girdle around his waist.
There's nothing especially original in the Artic Monkeys' music, but they perform it with a swagger, the jagged edges deliberately intact.
The work began with a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study fat in African green monkeys from St.
Scientists believe that human Aids is a disease which has been passed from animals to humans - in this case monkeys.
He often journeys to remote spots to check out new itineraries, such as trips to see Bonobo monkeys in Congo and penguins in Antarctica.
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