Science news articles about 'rhesus macaque'First analysis of platypus genome may impact disease prevention
... consortia have succeeded in sequencing the genomes of several species in the past, most recently that of the rhesus macaque and the first marsupial, a small, South American opossum species.
“Each ... Yerkes researchers find link between psychological stress and overeating
... . To do this, they studied the feeding patterns of socially housed female rhesus macaques, which are organized by a dominance hierarchy that maintains group stability through continual harassment and ... Researchers develop first transgenic monkey model of Huntington's disease
... to 20 years after onset.
This study marks the first time that researchers have developed a rhesus macaque model of a specific human disease using transgenic technologies, a marked improvement over ... Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... incorporating an adenovirus agent. Following intramuscular vaccination, rhesus macaques showed high antibody levels that neutralized all four of the dengue virus types. To further test the ... Parasitic worm infections increase susceptibility to AIDS viruses
... an HIV-like virus necessary to infect rhesus macaques was 17-fold lower in animals ... to becoming infected with an AIDS-causing virus. The macaques co-infected with Schistosoma mansoni also demonstrated ... Simian foamy virus found in several people living and working with monkeys in Asia
... In one state in northern India, for example, researchers estimate that more than a quarter-million rhesus macaques, or about 86 percent of the wild population, live in urban areas because of habitat ... Human brains pay a price for being big
... who investigated brains from healthy and schizophrenic humans and compared them with chimpanzee and rhesus macaque brains. The researchers looked for differences in gene expression and metabolite ... Sound adds speed to visual perception
... recorded the neuronal responses with microelectrodes inserted directly into the primary visual cortex of a rhesus macaque. The monkey was then required to orient its gaze towards a visual stimulus. ... Thumbs up -- a tiny ancestral remnant lends developmental edge to humans
... of Medicine), and postdoctoral fellows describes a global survey they conducted of genomes—human, chimpanzee, rhesus macaque, mouse, rat, and dog. They screened across these species to find the most ... Why some primates, but not humans, can live with immunodeficiency viruses and not progress to AIDS
... are activated to a significantly lower extent during SIV infection than are the immune systems of rhesus macaques, and that this difference may explain why SIV and HIV infection leads to AIDS in some ... Researchers find stem cells from monkey teeth can stimulate growth and generation of brain cells
... of researchers placed dental pulp stem cells from the tooth of a rhesus macaque into the hippocampal areas of mice. The dental pulp stem cells stimulated growth of new neural cells, and ... What’s good for the mouse is good for the monkey: Skin cells reprogrammed into stem cells
... create mouse and human iPS cells.
The work has multiple exciting applications. "As the rhesus macaque is the most relevant primate model for most human diseases, highly efficient generation of ... Blocking immune inhibitor improves response to HIV-like virus, prolongs survival in monkeys
... the plasma viral load and also prolonged survival of rhesus macaque monkeys severely infected with simian ... PD-1 to control HIV infection using a macaque monkey model of SIV. They injected nine SIV- ... Female genital tissue not foolproof barrier to HIV sexual transmission
... were conducted with lab cultures of human tissue obtained during hysterectomies and in tissue from rhesus macaque monkeys.
The researchers determined that HIV penetrated the genital skin barrier ...
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First analysis of platypus genome may impact disease prevention
... consortia have succeeded in sequencing the genomes of several species in the past, most recently that of the rhesus macaque and the first marsupial, a small, South American opossum species. “Each ...Yerkes researchers find link between psychological stress and overeating
... . To do this, they studied the feeding patterns of socially housed female rhesus macaques, which are organized by a dominance hierarchy that maintains group stability through continual harassment and ...Researchers develop first transgenic monkey model of Huntington's disease
... to 20 years after onset. This study marks the first time that researchers have developed a rhesus macaque model of a specific human disease using transgenic technologies, a marked improvement over ...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... incorporating an adenovirus agent. Following intramuscular vaccination, rhesus macaques showed high antibody levels that neutralized all four of the dengue virus types. To further test the ...Parasitic worm infections increase susceptibility to AIDS viruses
... an HIV-like virus necessary to infect rhesus macaques was 17-fold lower in animals ... to becoming infected with an AIDS-causing virus. The macaques co-infected with Schistosoma mansoni also demonstrated ...Simian foamy virus found in several people living and working with monkeys in Asia
... In one state in northern India, for example, researchers estimate that more than a quarter-million rhesus macaques, or about 86 percent of the wild population, live in urban areas because of habitat ...Human brains pay a price for being big
... who investigated brains from healthy and schizophrenic humans and compared them with chimpanzee and rhesus macaque brains. The researchers looked for differences in gene expression and metabolite ...Sound adds speed to visual perception
... recorded the neuronal responses with microelectrodes inserted directly into the primary visual cortex of a rhesus macaque. The monkey was then required to orient its gaze towards a visual stimulus. ...Thumbs up -- a tiny ancestral remnant lends developmental edge to humans
... of Medicine), and postdoctoral fellows describes a global survey they conducted of genomes—human, chimpanzee, rhesus macaque, mouse, rat, and dog. They screened across these species to find the most ...Why some primates, but not humans, can live with immunodeficiency viruses and not progress to AIDS
... are activated to a significantly lower extent during SIV infection than are the immune systems of rhesus macaques, and that this difference may explain why SIV and HIV infection leads to AIDS in some ...Researchers find stem cells from monkey teeth can stimulate growth and generation of brain cells
... of researchers placed dental pulp stem cells from the tooth of a rhesus macaque into the hippocampal areas of mice. The dental pulp stem cells stimulated growth of new neural cells, and ...What’s good for the mouse is good for the monkey: Skin cells reprogrammed into stem cells
... create mouse and human iPS cells. The work has multiple exciting applications. "As the rhesus macaque is the most relevant primate model for most human diseases, highly efficient generation of ...Blocking immune inhibitor improves response to HIV-like virus, prolongs survival in monkeys
... the plasma viral load and also prolonged survival of rhesus macaque monkeys severely infected with simian ... PD-1 to control HIV infection using a macaque monkey model of SIV. They injected nine SIV- ...Female genital tissue not foolproof barrier to HIV sexual transmission
... were conducted with lab cultures of human tissue obtained during hysterectomies and in tissue from rhesus macaque monkeys. The researchers determined that HIV penetrated the genital skin barrier ...