Sentences with phrase «into rhesus»

Efficient gene transfer into rhesus repopulating hematopoietic stem cells using a simian immunodeficiency virus - based lentiviral vector system.

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

But if you put that same virus into a rhesus macaque, the monkey's immune system reacts similarly to that of humans; there is severe depletion of CD4 T cells and progression to AIDS, explains U.C.S.F. researcher Peter Hunt.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The vaccine consists of human viral proteins inserted into a similar virus affecting rhesus monkeys.

To gain more insight into neural computing, Modha has mapped the brain of the rhesus macaque monkey, which is similar to our own.

Taking matters further, researchers have found that chimpanzee and rhesus macaque infants and mothers spend a significant amount time gazing at one another, looking into and recognizing each other's faces.

In July neuroscientists at Caltech announced they had tapped directly into the mysterious part of the brain involved in planning and motivation — in this case, in three rhesus monkeys.

To gain further insight into these concerns, Dr. Michael McCracken of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Maryland, and colleagues infected 25 rhesus macaques with Zika virus.

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.

Since the rhesus monkey was the most common laboratory monkey at the time and very little was known about its natural behavior, my project was directly relevant to a host of other ongoing research into animal behavior and social dynamics.

Luis Barreiro at the University of Montreal, Canada, and colleagues sorted female rhesus monkeys who had never met into groups and observed as they formed a social pecking order.

The team engineered the immunoadhesin sequences into the AAV vector and injected the constructs into the muscles of nine rhesus macaques, where the muscle cells then started to produce the chimeric antibodies and secrete them into the bloodstream.