Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test?
In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers.
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NHP research is indispensable for neuroscience and many other fields.
The battles are local AND national. All NHP researchers in the USA are at risk now. Who will be next?
Academic freedom is being dismantled. What will you do?
Email ohsuboard@ohsu.edu TODAY and tell them you support and value NHP research.
Flood the zone. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
@drugmonkey.bsky.social is right!
The battles are local AND national. All NHP researchers in the USA are at risk now. Who will be next?
Academic freedom is being dismantled. What will you do?
Email ohsuboard@ohsu.edu TODAY and tell them you support and value NHP research.
Flood the zone.
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One quick way to #standupforscience is to submit a letter here.
Deadline is 2/6 at noon PT
Please repost!
First they came for DEI and I said nothing for I hoped my success rates would improve.
Then they came for gender identity research and I said nothing for I hoped my success rates would improve.
Then they came for the NPRCs, and I said nothing for I hoped my success rates would improve.
In case you had any doubts what this “oh we just want to encourage non-animal research” excuse for putting an AR nutter in high office at NIH was about….
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Take action TODAY. Provide public comment in writing by emailing ohsuboard@ohsu.edu by THIS FRIDAY, Feb. 6 at noon PT. Include “For public comment” in the subject line. The battles are local AND national. All NHP researchers in the USA are at risk next.
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Repost! Flood the zone!
Take action TODAY. Provide public comment in writing by emailing ohsuboard@ohsu.edu by THIS FRIDAY, Feb. 6 at noon PT. Include “For public comment” in the subject line. The battles are local AND national. All NHP researchers in the USA are at risk next.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
You can provide public comment in writing by emailing ohsuboard@ohsu.edu by Friday, Feb. 6 at noon PT. Please include “For public comment” in the subject line. Your written comment will be provided to each member of the board.
NIH and some outside interest groups are trying to force the closing of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, and it looks like they might win. This would be a huge blow for translational research. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Regional heterogeneity shapes macroscopic wave dynamics of the human and non-human primate cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...
γ-Radiation Induces Long-Term Dose-Related Proteomic and Phosphorylated-Tau Species Changes in Non-Human Primate Hippocampus #NeuroDegeneration 🧪🧠
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8426282/lates...
@glymphaticrnet.bsky.social @nprcnews.bsky.social
Aging macaques bridge the translational gap in perivascular space biology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...
New HD focused article leveraging multi-modal imaging from our long-standing collaboration with @danielebertoglio.bsky.social and colleagues! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This perspective on “imprecision medicine” is resonating with me. Author describes a “complementary approach of targeting the brain milieu in order to achieve disease-modifying effects in patients with or at risk of neurodegenerative disease” www.aginganddisease.org/EN/10.14336/...
✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨
Cortico-striatal gray matter atrophy and white matter microstructural degradation across the rhesus macaque adult lifespan.
@dralisonweiss.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001010
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Joshua A. Karpf, Christopher D. Kroenke, et al:
Characterization of normative fetal rhesus macaque brain development with magnetic resonance imaging
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cool! Looking over the documentation… what would be a suggestion for how to use this with Vt PET data (where arterial input and metabolite correction are needed due to no valid reference region)? For example TSPO PET.
Similar concerns about NIH leadership. Basic research is under threat, this goes hand in hand with public health. Your constituents need your voice to support science in the USA!
Not Yet AlphaFold for the Mind: Evaluating Centaur as a Synthetic Participant arxiv.org/abs/2508.078...
@repdexteror.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov Oregonians want you to stand up for science! Join this fight—get loud!