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Aug. 24, 2024: UW poised to join studies of pig organ transplants in people (by David Wahlberg, Wisconsin State Journal, subscription required.) Describes the Center for Biomedical Swine Research and research involving pig kidneys transplanted into WNPRC rhesus monkeys.
July 29, 2024: Brain cell grafts in monkeys jump-start human trial for new Parkinson’s treatment
July 15, 2024: 2024 PILOT PROJECT AWARDS APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
May 20, 2024: Congratulations to our Student Award Winners!
May 3, 2024: Linde Lee Jacobs brings patient advocacy, personal journey to UW–Madison
March 20, 2024: HIV treatment research advance is published in Science
March 16, 2024: Emory primatologist Frans de Waal (10/29/1948- 3/14/2024) remembered for bringing apes “a little closer to humans”
Feb. 6, 2024: Collaborative efforts among the National Primate Research Centers advance Zika virus research
Dec. 8, 2023: Ei Terasawa Grilley marks 50 years as a scientist and teacher at the University of Wisconsin
Oct. 19, 2023: Why do men and women respond to stress differently? New research suggests answer is found in puberty
Oct. 16, 2023: Combining cell types may lead to improved cardiac cell therapy following a myocardial infarction
Oct. 13, 2023: Researchers share new method of protection from TB in macaques with SIV
Oct. 12, 2023: Conservation, community, and a love for big monkeys: Karen Strier celebrates 40-year study of Northern muriqui.
Oct. 11, 2023: Multi-university research team reports genetically engineered kidney transplant success from pig to monkey in Nature.
Oct. 10, 2023: Discovery reveals fragile X syndrome begins developing even before birth
Sept. 26, 2023: Emborg Lab submits Cool Science Image Contest winner
Sept. 19, 2023: Casey Ostheimer knows how to nurture
Sept. 13, 2023: Mixing donor and recipient immune systems creates tolerance of transplanted kidneys (See also UW study: Kidney transplant outcomes improve significantly over last half-century)
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