Sooty mangabeys, a type of African monkey, can survive infection by SIV, a relative of HIV, and not succumb to AIDS. Researchers have now identified a way some of sooty mangabeys' immune cells ...

Peaceful co-existence, rather than war: that's how sooty mangabeys, a monkey species found in West Africa, handle infection by SIV, a relative of HIV, and avoid developing AIDS-like disease.

Sooty mangabeys, a type of African monkey, have intrigued scientists for years because they can survive infection by SIV, a relative of HIV, and not succumb to AIDS. Topics. Conditions.

Some primate species, including sooty mangabeys, harbor simian immunodeficiency viruses but remain healthy, unlike rhesus macaques. The immune systems of sooty mangabeys become significantly less ...

Sooty mangabeys are a monkey species found on the western coast of central Africa. Their unique immunity to SIV, a relative of HIV, has intrigued medical researchers for decades.

Sooty mangabey and vervet monkey mothers charge a price, dictated by market forces, that other females must pay to touch their babies.

“ICAM2 protein in the mangabeys is shorter, which results in a dramatic functional change in sooty mangabeys, causing it to no longer be expressed on the surface of those immune cells.” These genomic ...

Sooty mangabeys are a species of old world monkeys that live in the forests of West Africa. They carry high viral loads of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) in their blood, yet show no signs of ...

How does a West African monkey species called sooty mangabeys resist SIV, the “monkey version” of HIV, and prevent the infection from developing into AIDS? In a novel study comparing the genomes of ...

•Yerkes' colony of sooty mangabeys was started in the late 1960s and now numbers about 230. •In 1988, U.S. Fish & Wildlife listed sooties as endangered. ATLANTA – As monkeys go, sooty ...

Scientists have finally identified the secret that helps Sooty mangabeys, a type of African monkey, survive infection by SIV, a relative of HIV, and not succumb to AIDS. Scientists have finally ...

An adult female sooty mangabey suffering from a Treponema pallidum pertenue infection. Nearly six percent of flies in the mangabey group were found to carry the DNA of this pathogen.