Over 60 years of life-saving research and humane animal care
A UW–Madison gene-editing project — a nanocapsule that delivers CRISPR safely into the brain — earned $2.3 million in new NIH funding. WNPRC scientists Marina Emborg and Jon Levine are collaborators, and the next phase will test the system’s gene editing and safety in nonhuman-primate brains at WNPRC.
WNPRC scientist Marina Emborg and her team developed a nonhuman-primate model that lets researchers visualize, in real time, the heart-nerve damage Parkinson’s disease causes — using PET imaging to track inflammation and nerve loss in the hearts of rhesus macaques. The advance could help detect and treat a serious but under-recognized effect of Parkinson’s on …
By Jacqueline N. Rubin, WNPRC editorial intern The Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) and the Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) have received a $4.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to double their yield of common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) for biomedical researchers needing these primates for neuroscience research. While addressing the …