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Signs of Alzheimer’s found in chimpanzees for the first time

Signs of Alzheimer’s found in chimpanzees for the first time

1 August 2017

Our closest evolutionary relatives develop Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles too but don’t necessarily get dementia - a finding that may need to new treatments
Medaka fish

Fish can't recognise faces if they’re upside down – just like us

26 July 2017

Just like humans, the medaka fish that lives in rice paddies is good at identifying faces – but, again like us, it struggles when faces are the wrong way up

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