News tagged with rhesus macaque


Social stress affects immune system gene expression in monkeys

The ranking of a monkey within her social environment and the stress accompanying that status dramatically alters the expression of nearly 1,000 genes, a new scientific study reports. The research is the first ...

Genetics created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study using stem cell therapy shows promise in fight against HIV

UC Davis Health System researchers are a step closer to launching human clinical trials involving the use of an innovative stem cell therapy to fight the virus that causes AIDS.

HIV & AIDS created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify potential new HIV vaccine/therapy target

After being infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in a laboratory study, rhesus macaques that had more of a certain type of immune cell in their gut than others had much lower levels of the virus in their blood, ...

HIV & AIDS created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineered cytomegalovirus protects monkeys from HIV equivalent

(Medical Xpress)—A new study by researchers in the US has shown that an ancient virus can be modified to help in the fight against the simian immunodeficiency virus SIV, which is the equivalent in monkeys ...

HIV & AIDS created May 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Scientists discover effects of PD-1 blockade on ART therapy in SIV-infected monkeys

Scientists have discovered that blocking PD-1 (programmed death-1), an immune molecule that inhibits the immune response to viral infections, can have a significant effect on HIV-like illness in nonhuman primates.

HIV & AIDS created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stop on red! The effects of color may lie deep in evolution...

(Medical Xpress) -- Almost universally, red means stop. Red means danger. Red means hot. And analyzing the results in the 2004 Olympics, researchers have found that red also means dominance. Athletes wearing red prevailed ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Penile foreskin is immunologically complete: raises new vaccine possibilities for HIV vaccine

Rhesus macaque monkeys infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) harbor immunoglobulin G (IgG) and SIV-specific antibodies and T cells in the foreskin of the penis, according to a study in the July 2012 Journal of ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New microsphere-based methods for detecting HIV antibodies

Detection of HIV antibodies is used to diagnose HIV infection and monitor trials of experimental HIV/AIDS vaccines. New, more sensitive detection systems being developed use microspheres to capture HIV antibodies ...

HIV & AIDS created May 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Deciding to stay or go is a deep-seated brain function

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even little kids picking strawberries do it.

Neuroscience created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast