Canto and Owen were among the subjects in a pioneering long - term study of the links between diet and aging in rhesus macaque monkeys. (sciencedaily.com)
Now, Terasawa, Brian Kenealy (who earned his doctorate in Terasawa's lab) and colleagues have worked out just how important by studying the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys who'd had their ovaries removed. (sciencedaily.com)
Mirror neurons were first discovered in macaques in the 1990s, and brain scans using functional MRI had hinted that they exist in humans too. (newscientist.com)