Featured Research News:
- Mixing donor and recipient immune systems creates tolerance of transplanted kidneys
- Lower urinary tract dysfunction is linked to metabolic syndrome
- Project on new genetic tools to understand the workings of the brain wins Research Forward Award
- New drug, N-803, may be beneficial in treating HIV
- Discovery points toward new treatments for ovariectomized women
- Ceramides are early responders in metabolic syndrome development
- Researchers identify sustainable source of immunodeficiency virus-resistant immune cells
- A new monkey model for studying Alzheimer’s Disease
- WNPRC COVID-19 Updates: Research resources and news
- WNPRC AIDS research news
- Designer alterations to brain cells reduce anxious behavior in monkeys
- Researchers find a better way to measure consciousness
- Individualized brain cell grafts reverse Parkinson’s symptoms in monkeys
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Why Primates
The National Primate Research Centers: Causes, Preventions, Treatments, Cures
How do the National Primate Research Centers benefit science and society? (2022)
The Livesaving Benefits of Primate Research (2017)
The Critical Role of Nonhuman Primates in Scientific and Medical Research (2016)
Events
WNPRC Robert W. Goy Lecture Series: Larry Young, William P. Timmie Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, will give the eighth Robert W. Goy Lecture in person and virtually on Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at 4 p.m. The title is “The Neuroscience of Love, Loss and Social Connections: Implications for Health and Society.” Please contact Edi Chan for more information.
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