In a study reported in Nature this month, Yerkes National Primate Research Center researchers were key in determining that treating SIV-infected rhesus macaques with type 1 interferon, a protein known to trigger antiviral ...
Jul 23, 2014
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For animals such as primates, the act of gazing plays a key role in social interaction, used to both send and gather information. In a new study, Yale scientists uncover two brain regions that contribute to this type of social ...
Jun 3, 2024
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A Skoltech-led team of scientists has peered into the brains of humans, macaques and chimpanzees to discover surprising similarities. In particular, they focused on alternative splicing during various stages of brain development ...
Feb 5, 2018
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have developed an animal model of human hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in rhesus macaques, an advance that may lead to treatments, vaccines and improved methods of diagnosing ...
Apr 28, 2014
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Aged, wild-caught African green monkeys exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with clinical symptoms similar to those observed in the most serious human cases of COVID-19, report ...
Jan 19, 2021
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Army scientists evaluated three nonhuman primate species as potential models of SARS-CoV-2 airborne infection, according to results published online this week in PLOS ONE. Their work demonstrates that any of these species ...
Feb 4, 2021
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New research from Tulane University may shed light on how parasite strain diversity can impact Chagas disease progression and severity.
Sep 5, 2023
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A study, "Mpox infection protects against re-challenge in rhesus macaques," published in Cell, leads researchers to believe that the successful development of a mpox (previously known as monkeypox) vaccine may prevent humans ...
Apr 16, 2024
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, several reports have indicated that SARS-CoV-2 spillover events have occurred from humans to animals, as evidenced by the transmission of the virus between keepers and tigers and lions ...
Jul 19, 2021
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