Sentences with phrase «from rhesus macaques»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).