Sentences with phrase «uses rhesus macaques»

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Using this new method, Lemay and colleagues identified 1,606 proteins in human milk and 518 proteins in rhesus macaque milk.

The researchers used a large dataset spanning 21 years and including 910 adult female rhesus macaques in Puerto Rico.

This neon swirl was inspired by the neural architecture of a rhesus macaque brain, used by Modha to help him design the chip.

Using these images and 20 years of genetic parentage data, the researchers assessed whether the variation in red ornaments influenced fecundity — that is they produced more offspring — and is heritable in male and female rhesus macaques, two necessary conditions for the trait to be considered under sexual selection.

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.

Using this new method, Lemay and colleagues identified 1,606 proteins in human milk and 518 proteins in rhesus macaque milk.

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.

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).

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.

All rhesus macaque experiments were approved by the Tulane Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee approval (Protocol P0085; Project 3520) The Tulane National Primate Research Center (TNPRC) is an Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care accredited facility (AAALAC # 000594).

One ZFN pair was used to target both the human and rhesus macaque CXCR4 genes since the 24 bp target sequences are identical.

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.

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

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].

The most common animals that are used in preclinical tests of HIV prevention products are mice, rabbits, and rhesus macaque monkeys.

During the lecture, Picker discussed his work showing that an extensive treatment with CMV, a persistent virus that stays in the body without causing symptoms, can be used to target and clear SIV, a close cousin of HIV that infects rhesus macaques.

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.