Research in nonhuman primates is opening the possibility ... inflammation and disease progression relate to each other. The macaque model bridges the gap between what we can learn from mouse ...

This focus on using primates to better understand the ... we used this animal model to understand human disease,” explains Okabe. “That’s why the project has an emphasis on human disorders ...

These primates are making a big impact in the ... For their Parkinson’s disease model, the researchers employed an older virus-mediated delivery system to introduce mutated copies of a human ...

Scientists say populations of monkeys that are genetically identical will be useful for research into human diseases ... primate biology that can be studied by having this additional model ...