Sentences with phrase «from rhesus»

However, according to Dr. Joseph Mercola, there are peer reviewed studies showing that Bt - toxin does bind with mouse small intestines and with intestinal tissue from rhesus monkeys.

The research team at Oregon Health & Science University used skin cells from rhesus macaque monkeys to create the cloned embryos.

In addition, we checked for TMAdV in rectal swab samples from rhesus macaques housed in the same building as the titi monkeys (n = 26) and in pooled droppings from wild rodents (n = 2) living near the titi monkey cages.

To study this in the most rigorous way possible, we have explored the possibility of targeting CCR5 and CXCR4 in CD4 + T cells derived from rhesus macaques.

Whole blood from rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) housed at the Tulane National Primate Research Center was used for CD4 + T cell isolation and ZFN treatment.

Haddow, who studies how pathogens survive in the jungle and emerge when humans encroach, had a great personal interest in Zika: His grandfather, Alexander Haddow, was one of three scientists who had isolated the virus from a rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest near Entebbe, Uganda, in 1947 and described it in a paper in 1952.

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Rachels has described an experiment with rhesus monkeys in which not only did monkeys refrain from eating for many days in order not to shock another monkey, but the willingness to undergo such hunger was correlated with (1) whether or not the monkeys had been cagemates and (2) whether or not the hungry monkey had itself been in the situation of the monkey undergoing the shocks.

Zoologist Robert Hinde conducted several experiments with rhesus monkeys in which he studied their emotional and behavioural reactions to separation from their mothers, as well as their interactions with other monkeys.

Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast - milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.

When injected into the skin of six rhesus macaque monkeys, the vaccine prompted an immune response that blocked the proteins from popping up in the brain.

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.

In a huge study of female rhesus macaques, a scientist from the University of Exeter found those with many close female relatives have better life expectancy.

«The superior temporal sulcus or the amygdala are implicated in humans and macaques, suggesting that the brain networks involved in processing social information in humans has evolved from a network that was already performing computations related to social cognition in rhesus macaques,» says Jerome Sallet, one of the University of Oxford researchers who performed the study.

She also drew inspiration from another English expatriate, a neuroscientist doing related work from a different perspective, studying social cognition in rhesus macaques.

A rhesus monkey's liver doesn't look much different from a human one.

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.

The verdict, from a 25 - year study in rhesus monkeys fed 30 % less than control animals, represents another setback for the notion that a simple, diet - triggered switch can slow ageing.

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.

First, they sequenced the same 50 olfactory receptor genes from two humans, two chimpanzees, two gorillas, two orangutans, and two 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.

Zika virus can persist in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), lymph nodes and colorectal tissue of infected rhesus monkeys for weeks after the virus has been cleared from blood, urine and mucosal secretions, according to a study published online in Cell.

And a study in rhesus macaques, published in 2007, found no benefit from transferring blood of convalescent monkeys.

The rhesus monkeys were trained to move their hands to a light cue on a touch screen (for example from the center of the screen to the left), while at the same time the activity of neurons in their posterior parietal cortex was recorded.

Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast - milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.

Recent animal studies from Cole's group confirm the link: cortisol receptors stopped working in rhesus monkeys that were socially stressed.

And research in rhesus monkeys suggests similar benefits in primates: One study found that monkeys eating 30 percent less than their cage mates appeared to be protected from age - related diseases and had lower mortality 15 to 20 years later.

Despite this long separation from the rest of the primates, they now have something in common with a group of rhesus macaques in Puerto Rico and capuchin monkeys living at Yale: They all contribute to Santos's wide - ranging study of our primate relatives, offering an unparalleled glimpse into our evolutionary past.

The groups have previously published updates on their monkeys» health, but in tomorrow's issue of Science, one of them reports survival data from their colony of 76 rhesus monkeys.

Using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a team from Oregon Health & Science University (O.H.S.U.) in Portland implanted the contents of individual skin cells from adult male rhesus macaques into each of 304 macaque egg cells stripped of their genetic material.

Infection researchers from the German Primate Center (DPZ)-- Leibniz Institute for Primate Research have in cooperation with international colleagues tested a new vaccination strategy against the HIV - related simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in rhesus monkeys.

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.

The CMU team used PisCES to follow neural gene expressions from conception through adulthood in rhesus monkey brains to find out what genes work together during different points of development.

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.

Interestingly, none of the 133 rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) housed in the same building became sick during the outbreak, and neither did any of the Old World monkeys from surrounding outdoor colonies of rhesus and cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis).

Researchers from a set of international universities are working together to save an invaluable scientific resource that was badly damaged in Hurricane Maria — a population of rhesus monkeys living on a remote island — and the staff and facilities that support them.

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

As I know from my work with free - ranging infant wild baboons in Kenya — monkeys that have a social organization similar to that of the rhesus — this regimen results in a terrible distortion of the animals» natural way of life.

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).

Already, Graham said, VRC researchers have shown that passive immunization with VRC01, one of the broadest and most potent bNAbs identified in recent years, can protect rhesus macaques from virus challenge, adding that VRC01 is now ready to be used in human trials.

ZIKV, an emerging neglected virus, was first documented in 1947 when it was isolated from a sentinel rhesus monkey stationed on a tree platform in the Zika forest, Uganda [12].

A purified inactivated virus vaccine derived from a Puerto Rican strain was shown to induce ZIKV - specific neutralizing Abs and protect from virus challenge in mice and NHP models (115), and DNA vaccines encoding the prM / E genes of ZIKV elicited strong binding and neutralizing Abs in rhesus monkeys (116, 117).

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.

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.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and the Oregon National Primate Research Center found that the sperm of the male rhesus macaques that were tested stopped moving 30 hours after the compound was administered intravenously.

Assay positive controls (PCs) were derived from XMRV - infected rhesus macaque plasma at 1 ∶ 1000 (PC1) or 1 ∶ 4000 (PC2).

In the late 1980s, more researchers from India were conducting experiments with casein and cancer — but this time used different doses of aflatoxin, and studied rhesus monkeys instead of rats.

I wasn't quite sure what it meant, and I thought I knew everything about propionic acid — a short - chain saturated fatty acid produced in the gut from the fermentation of resistant starch, but I Googled it one more time just for shits and grins, and sure enough — the first search result turned up a breaking news story about propionic acid and increased tail length in juvenile rhesus monkeys.

How gene — environment interactions shape biobehavioral development: Lessons from studies with rhesus monkeys