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Jun 10, 2021 50 secs

Many of the primates, mostly rhesus macaques, at the Tulane National Research Center are destined for use in scientific research, including in experiments for COVID-19.

Primates' DNA and physiological features make them ideal models for human comparison when studying diseases, said Skip Bohm, associate director and chief veterinary medical officer at the Tulane center.

COVID-19-related studies by the center include one published in the National Academy of Sciences scientific journal in February that found older individuals with high body mass index and more severe COVID-19 infection exhaled more respiratory droplets, allowing them to become so-called 'super-spreaders.'.

Among future work, the center plans to study "long COVID," the incidence of one in 10 diagnosed patients remaining unwell long after their acute infection.

"There are many different therapeutics that are coming online that need to be tested, and with the network that we have, we can compare one treatment to another," said center director Jay Rappaport, referring to the facility's role coordinating the COVID-19 work of the seven U.S.

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