Researchers at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University are using the pint-sized primates to evaluate the potential of two drugs, quipazine and alaproclate, to act as treatments for cocaine addiction in humans. Toys still intrigue the juvenile at heart and spirit. The traditional vaccines used to immunize for measles, mumps, and polio contain live attenuated organisms, while those for polio and rabies contain killed forms. Fear is thought to be the hardest emotion to identify and happiness, the easiest. Dr. Quarmby's lab at Emory University is trying to clone the gene for katanin.
Microtubules are present in cells and are comprised of tubulin proteins.