Topic: Oregon National Primate Research Center

Newly published research by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University provides significant new information about how early embryonic stem...
P. Michael Conn, associate director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) at Oregon Health and Science University and co-author of The Animal Research War , knows what it's like to be the object of other people's ire. "I would ...

The war on animal research

This is an edited excerpt from The Animal Research War by P. Michael Conn and James V. Parker, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in May 2008. " After firefighters sawed off the steering columns, found the keys, liberated the drivers, and towed ...

Comment: Donated eggs don't come cheap

NOVEMBER was an astonishing month for embryonic stem cell research. First, Shoukhrat Mitalipov at the Oregon National Primate Research Center reported producing cloned embryonic stem cells from a rhesus macaque monkey - the first from an adult primate. Using viruses to introduce new ...

Many Vaccine Booster Shots Unnecessary: Study

11/7/2007 Print E-mail Americans may be over-vaccinated against some diseases, according to a study that found the duration of protective immunity for many vaccines is greatly underestimated.. We expected to see long-lived immunity following a viral infection and relatively short-lived ...