News tagged with nonhuman primates

Ebola antibody treatment, produced in plants, protects monkeys from lethal disease

A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman primates using monoclonal antibodies.

Medical research Oct 15, 2012 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 1 |

Scientists identify protective role for antibodies in Ebola vaccine study

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have found that an experimental vaccine elicits antibodies that can protect nonhuman primates from Ebola virus infection.

Medical research Jan 14, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Neural interaction in periods of silence

German neurophysiologists have developed a new method to study widespread networks of neurons responsible for our memory.

Neuroscience Nov 21, 2012 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 1 |

Study finds brain origins of variation in pathological anxiety

New findings from nonhuman primates suggest that an overactive core circuit in the brain, and its interaction with other specialized circuits, accounts for the variability in symptoms shown by patients with severe anxiety. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Mar 25, 2013 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Most mutations come from dad

Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father's age but not the mother's, researchers have found in the largest study of human ...

Genetics Aug 24, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |