NIH awards OHSU $2.7M grant to expand availability of research animals
March 30, 2023
Oregon Health & Science University’s primate research center will make the embryos available to scientists nationwide.
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Monkeys that eat omega-3 rich diet show more developed brain networks
February 05, 2014
Monkeys that ate a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids had brains with highly connected and well organized neural networks — in some ways akin to the neural networks in healthy humans — while monkeys that ate a diet deficient in the fatty acids had much ...
OHSU research team successfully converts human skin cells into embryonic stem cells
May 15, 2013
Update 05/23/2013: OHSU releases statement on questions about photos in stem cell paper. Read the statement. Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) have successfully reprogrammed human ...
New OHSU research helps explain early-onset puberty in females
January 29, 2013
New research from Oregon Health & Science University has provided significant insight into the reasons why early-onset puberty occurs in females. The research, which was conducted at OHSU's Oregon National Primate Research Center, is published in the ...
Two new breakthroughs demonstrate how tomorrow’s life-saving medications may currently be living at the bottom of the sea
January 24, 2013
OHSU researchers, in partnership with scientists from several other institutions, have published two new research papers that signal how the next class of powerful medications may currently reside at the bottom of the ocean. In both cases, the ...
OHSU researchers test new gene therapy method in human cells...and it works
October 24, 2012
Oregon Health & Science University's development of a new gene therapy method to prevent certain inherited diseases has reached a significant milestone. Researchers at the university's Oregon National Primate Research Center and the OHSU Department of ...
OHSU National Primate Research Center receives another clean bill of health following federal inspection
September 20, 2012
The Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University has received another clean bill of health from the United States Department of Agriculture. Approximately twice a year, a USDA animal care expert conducts an ...
‘Humanized’ mice developed at Oregon Health & Science University enable malaria research breakthrough at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
September 10, 2012
A novel human liver-chimeric mouse model developed at Oregon Health & Science University and Yecuris Corporation has made possible a research breakthrough at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute that will greatly accelerate studies of the most lethal ...
OHSU study shows how mitochondrial genes are passed from mother to child
May 03, 2012
Research conducted at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University helps answer some long-standing questions about how certain disease-causing gene mutations are inherited. The research specifically focused on gene ...
Mice bred to more closely resemble a genetic variation in humans help target an annual outbreak: the flu
February 21, 2012
As part of a national collaboration, Oregon Health & Science University researchers are studying specially bred mice that are more like humans than ever before when it comes to genetic variation. Through these mice, the researchers hope to better ...
