Not exact matches
Neuroscientist Christopher I. Petkov of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tbingen, Germany, and his colleagues
used functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore the
macaque brain.
This neon swirl was inspired by the neural architecture of a rhesus
macaque brain,
used by Modha to help him design the chip.
Kreiter, who
uses macaques to study the
brain's visual perception system, is caught up in a high - profile legal saga surrounding primate research in the German city of Bremen.
Now,
using a combination of
brain imaging and single - neuron recording in
macaques, biologist Doris Tsao and her colleagues at Caltech have finally cracked the neural code for face recognition.
Mirror neurons were first discovered in
macaques in the 1990s, and
brain scans
using functional MRI had hinted that they exist in humans too.
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).
We have compared the transcriptome in blood leukocytes, liver, and
brain of humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and
macaques using microarrays, as well as protein expression patterns of humans and chimpanzees
using two - dimensional gel electrophoresis.
The antibodies
used for this slide are from left to right, ab92547, this is a rabbit monoclonal antibody to vimentin and in this image it is staining astrocytes in
Macaque brain sections.
We
use non-human primates — marmosets and
macaques — to study how advanced behaviour is controlled by the
brain.
Negative controls including the secondary antibody alone and uninfected monkey tissue were
used, as was an ex vivo section of infected
macaque brain tissue [43] for the positive control.