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Jan. 8, 2025: Medicines for Placental Disorders Working Their Way up the Species Ladder

Dec. 11, 2024: Human Trials for Parkinson’s Begin After Primate Success

Nov. 26, 2024: Research to treat placenta could improve human pregnancies

Nov. 13, 2024: Human stem cell-derived heart cells are safe in monkeys, could treat congenital heart disease

Nov. 5, 2024: “The Subcutaneous Adipose Microenvironment as a Determinant of Body Fat Development in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome” is the Journal of the Endocrine Society’s Featured Article this week. Authors include David Abbott from the WNPRC.

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

 

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