Sentences with phrase «by rhesus»

The group will know for sure after they perform a cesarean section on the mother — which will also let them obtain the placenta, normally eaten by rhesus mothers.

It prevents haemolytic disease of the newborn due to rhesus iso - immunisation of a rhesus negative mother by a rhesus positive foetus.

Not exact matches

By showing the devastating effects of deprivation on young rhesus monkeys, Harlow revealed the importance of a caregiver's love for healthy childhood development.

NEW DELHI — Armed with a government order and escorted by police, animal activists yesterday seized and released into the wild 50 rhesus monkeys being used for testing a new drug.

«Caloric restriction» makes worms, flies and mice live longer, so to see if it works for primates, a team led by Richard Weindruch of the University of Wisconsin - Madison monitored 76 rhesus macaques for 20 years.

«The tamarin work didn't pan out, but there are now several studies that show evidence of theory of mind in primates, including work by Brian Hare, Josep Call, Mike Tomasello, Felix Warneken, Laurie Santos, Justin Wood, and myself on chimps, rhesus monkeys and tamarins.

The data came from 429 adult rhesus macaques at the Cayo Santiago field station in Puerto Rico, which was devastated earlier this year by Hurricane Maria.

The rhesus monkeys later learned to walk on a treadmill with robotic legs controlled by their brains.

GOING VIRAL The diversity of viruses carried by such animals as rhesus macaques (one shown) hints at the number of viruses capable of infecting humans that are yet to be discovered.

The study of rhesus macaques showed some of the monkeys remain socially isolated for much of their lives, suggesting their isolation is caused by a persistent trait or traits.

He has spent years poring over studies of long - distance connections in the rhesus macaque monkey brain, ultimately creating a map of 383 different brain areas, connected by 6,602 individual links.

This neon swirl was inspired by the neural architecture of a rhesus macaque brain, used by Modha to help him design the chip.

The research team made its findings by recording and analyzing the neural activity in the ventral premotor cortex of three trained rhesus macaques as they participated in a series of grip tasks.

The animal rights group had run numerous ads alleging that researchers at an NIH lab in Poolesville, Maryland, were traumatizing baby rhesus macaques by taking them away from their mothers and addicting them to alcohol.

A dominant rhesus with a full belly may let a subordinate take away his meal, says Irwin Bernstein, a University of Georgia psychologist, and a female bored by her alpha male may slip away for a fling with a hot young beta.

First author Siddharth Krishnamurthy and the team, including Dan Barouch, MD, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, identified RNA bacteriophages by analyzing data from oceans, sewage, soils, crabs, sponges and barnacles, as well as insects, mice and rhesus macaques.

Earlier this year, a team at Emory University in Atlanta, Georiga, announced that a kidney from a genetically engineered pig had sustained a rhesus macaque monkey for more than 400 days before being rejected, breaking the record by more than 250 days.

The research team, led by the University of California, Davis, came to this conclusion after developing a new technique for comparing the proteome — all detectable proteins — of human milk with the proteome of the rhesus macaque monkey.

Now a research team led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in collaboration with the U.S. Military HIV Research Program has demonstrated that the viral reservoir is established strikingly early after intrarectal simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection of rhesus monkeys and before detectable viremia.

In September a 25 - year study conducted by the National Institute on Aging, in Baltimore, found that rhesus monkeys fed a moderate diet lived just as long as those receiving 25 to 30 percent fewer calories.

Although it is clear that rhesus monkeys can learn to avoid shock by attending to a facial expression, we don't know if this response is motivated by empathy, and empathy is necessary for altruism.

Thus, it seemed that members of an established rhesus community abide by a rule that says: Attack members that find food and don't share it.

Now, Terasawa, Brian Kenealy (who earned his doctorate in Terasawa's lab) and colleagues have worked out just how important by studying the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys who'd had their ovaries removed.

Four U.S. representatives — prompted by an aggressive ad campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which claimed that baby rhesus macaques at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development lab of Stephen Suomi were being ripped from their mothers at birth and being mentally traumatized — called on NIH to conduct a bioethical review of the lab.

In 2008, Andrew Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania published a landmark paper describing how two rhesus macaques learned to feed themselves marshmallows and fruit using a crude robotic limb controlled by electrodes implanted in their brains (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature06996).

In a study led by Michigan State University, scientists have shown that gene editing using CRISPR / Cas9 technology can be quite effective in rhesus monkey embryos ¬ - the first time this has been demonstrated in the U.S.

Today rhesus monkey infants are still forcibly separated by laboratory researchers from their mothers and stressed in ways that leave them physically and emotionally traumatized.

All rhesus macaque experiments were approved by the Tulane Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee approval (Protocol P0085; Project 3520) The Tulane National Primate Research Center (TNPRC) is an Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care accredited facility (AAALAC # 000594).

The rhesus R5 - ZFNs and X4 - ZFNs were delivered by Ad5 / F35 vector at MOIs from 600 — 2000 into rhesus CD4 + T cells.

Now, thanks to a multi-year study of rhesus macaques monkeys, researchers have found genetic changes caused by stressful environments are likely contributing to that...

To explore a potential link between the outbreak and associated illness in humans, we blindly tested available sera from titi monkeys (n = 59), rhesus macaques housed in the same building (n = 36), CNPRC personnel and close contacts (n = 20), and random human blood donors (n = 81) for evidence of recent or prior infection by TMAdV by virus neutralization (Fig. 6).

The researchers introduced this extra gene, designed to be regulated in a way that is similar to normal huntingtin genes, by injecting rhesus macaque oocytes with a viral vector.

By instead applying polarized light (light waves that vibrate on one plane) in a process the researchers coined Oosight, the eggs stayed healthy, allowing the scientists to finally clone the rhesus monkey embryos [source: BBC].

The researchers, led by UW — Madison pathology Professor David O'Connor, published a study today (June 28, 2016) in the journal Nature Communications describing their work establishing rhesus macaque monkeys at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center as a model for studying the way Zika virus infections may progress in people.

DNA was obtained from a blood stage infection of an Indian rhesus macaque donor with P. cynomolgi M strain stocks originally provided by Dr. Bill Collins from the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta.

A pilot study conducted by S. Narasimhan (Yale University) and M. Philipp showed that multiple tick feedings did not affect transmission in rhesus macaques, but the impact of this on xenodiagnosis was uncertain.

In this report, we describe the variations in serum antibody responses and disease manifestations in rhesus macaques infected with B. burgdorferi by tick bite.

Ten male Indian rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), aged 2 — 3 years were subjected to infection with B. burgdorferi by nymphal Ixodes scapularis tick feeding.

2012 — Novel Ad26MVA vaccine provides protection against SIV — Results found Ad26 / MVA vaccine combinations can provide partial protection against infection by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) in rhesus monkeys.

On pp. 677 — 688 of the current issue of Cell Metabolism, Rhoads et al. integrated large - scale data from the hepatic transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome of rhesus monkeys after 2 years on a 30 % calorie - restricted diet to reveal multi-modal mechanisms driven by calorie restriction to rewire metabolism.

Results from a recent study show that novel vaccine combinations can provide partial protection against infection by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) in rhesus monkeys.

However two recent studies reported that in rhesus monkeys accuracy was strongly affected by numerical ratio for both small and large quantities, in agreement with the existence of a single non-verbal mechanism over the whole numerical range [16], [30].

In the study by Embers» team, published in the journal PLOS ONE in 2012, three rhesus macaques were infected with the Lyme spirochete and treated with a course of oral doxycycline four months later.

In one 23 - year study of rhesus monkeys published in 2012, the average lifespan of the monkeys was not extended by restricting overall calorie intake.

The latest salvo in Macro-Nutrient Land is the Calorie Restriction Diet, inspired by animal experiments in which mice, guppies, water fleas, yeast, spiders, Labrador retrievers, a microscopic water invertebrate called the rotifer, and rhesus monkeys are said to live longer on diets that restrict caloric intake.13 Researchers are encouraged by the longevity of a single monkey who has reached 38 years on a diet in which the portion of monkey chow — dried compressed pellets of wheat, corn, soybean, alfalfa, fish and brewer's yeast — has been cut by 30 percent compared to controls.

The Upper Room is an installation of 13 paintings of rhesus macaque monkeys by Ofili in a specially designed room.

The Upper Room by Chris Ofili was exhibited at the Victoria Miro gallery in 2002: it consists of thirteen paintings, each of a rhesus macaque monkey, installed in a purpose - built room designed by David Adjaye.

Great book called the Machiavellian Intelligence by Dario Maestripieri describes human behavior thru the behaviors of the rhesus.

Given that early - onset antisocial behavior is associated with (1) subtle neurological impairment, (2) harsh, punitive, and neglectful parenting, and (3) family contexts characterized by substance abuse and criminal behavior,2 - 5 it is important to note that this program has affected these aspects of maternal, child, and family functioning at earlier phases in the child's development.6 - 11 Moreover, genetic vulnerability to impulsivity and aggression is expressed much more frequently when vulnerable rhesus monkeys experience aberrant rearing21 (also Allyson J. Bennett, PhD, K. Peter Lesch, Armin Heils, et al, unpublished data, 1998), adding to the plausibility of the findings reported here.

Gottman also made mention of relevant researchers and writers who have impacted his work like the research done at his Alma Mater, the University of Wisconsin by Harry (Israel) Harlow on the impact of attachment in the rhesus monkey, Viktor Frankel on making meaning and on why people turn away referencing Shirley Glass's Not Just Friends, a piece on infidelity.