Sentences with phrase «studying rhesus macaques»

Learning to deal with and respond to the media attention that a Wastebook mention can generate is valuable in and of itself, notes Tommy Blanchard, a data scientist at Fresenius Medical Care in Waltham, Massachusetts, whose graduate work studying rhesus macaques» decision - making made the cover of the 2014 Wastebook.

This has been corrected to note that he studied rhesus macaques.

Researchers studied rhesus macaques at the Cayo Santiago field station in Puerto Rico (photo: Lauren Brent)

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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.

During the study, thirty hours following a high - dose intravenous infusion of EP055 in male rhesus macaques, O'Rand and researchers in the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, found no indication of normal sperm motility.

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.

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.

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

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.

Previous studies have shown that rhesus macaque skin coloration is involved in mate selection - both males and females show interest in darker red faces displayed in the opposite sex.

The study chronicles the use of Vasalgel ™ in groups of rhesus macaques — confirming previous preclinical findings in rabbits on the efficacy of the new device and offering a new tool to colony managers.

In their study, the researchers had 60 human subjects view a series of digital photographs of female rhesus macaque monkeys, above, whose facial color changes to give social cues.

In the latest study, investigators at NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) infected six rhesus macaques with MERS - CoV and, eight hours later, treated half of them with the two - drug regimen.

«Florida's monkey river: Anthropologists studied human interaction with a colony of feral rhesus macaques living on the Silver River in central Florida.»

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.

Canto and Owen were among the subjects in a pioneering long - term study of the links between diet and aging in 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.

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.

However, the study does confirm rhesus macaques in Silver Springs State Park will consume eggs when they find them in natural habitat, Johnson said.

In the new study, three rhesus macaques were inoculated with the vaccine, dubbed «4pox.»

In the first, Platt and colleagues looked at the foraging behaviors of rhesus macaques, a non-human primate species the researchers have studied both in the lab and in the wild.

In the PLOS ONE paper, Chan and colleagues describe how three male rhesus macaques they studied displayed cognitive and motor impairments emerging at 16 months of age, and dystonia and signs of neurodegeneration on brain imaging at 24 months of age.

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.

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...

For my masters project I studied the relationship between sociality and fitness in the rhesus macaque through non-invasive markers of immune activation and HPA axis function.

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.

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.

Brain aging in humans, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): magnetic resonance imaging studies of macro - and microstructural changes.

While mice, guinea pigs, dogs, rabbits and monkeys have been used as animal models to study B. burgdorferi infection, rhesus macaques have been shown to most closely recapitulate the multi-organ nature and progression of human LD [26, 27].

This summer, the centers also began initial sequence production for creating a reference version of the genome of the rhesus macaque, which is a monkey that is widely used in studies of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

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.

Experimental animal studies have shown that Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, consistently establishes persistent infections in a variety of immunocompetent hosts, including laboratory mice [1], white - footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)[2], [3], [4], rats [5], hamsters [6], guinea pigs [7], gerbils [8], dogs [9], and nonhuman primates, including rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)[10] and baboons (Papio spp.)[11].