Science

You Can Thank Human-Neanderthal Relations For Your Strong Immune System

It’s already been well established that early humans had Bunga-Bunga parties with their closest semi-human relatives. But scientists are just now discovering what came from those relations — a pathogen-killing immune response that persists to this day.


May 14, 2011
Science

Monkey AIDS Vaccine Holds Promise For Us Humans, Too

While this is by no means a quantum leap for HIV treatment in humans, any AIDS progress is great AIDS progress. Especially when the progress is in our furry monkey relatives, who are responding terrifically to a new AIDS vaccine.