As populations age, degenerative brain diseases will torment further millions worldwide. A new German-US partnership intends to stop these afflictions, but will settle for ameliorating their most devastating effects.
The University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention is launching a five-year, $3.7 million study looking into the health effects of electronic cigarettes. “Cigarettes have been studied intensively in the U.S. since the 1950s. E-cigarettes have just come on the market really in less than a decade ago,” said Dr. Doug Jorenby, UW-CTRI Director of Clinical Services.
UW-Madison had two top choices for researchers at the Carbone Cancer Center and at the nursing school, but medical officials there say the uncertainty of the budget led to their picks choosing somewhere else.
UW–Madison chemistry professor Samuel H. Gellman, engineering professor William L. Murphy and bacteriology professor Katrina T. Forest have created and tested amino acids that could serve as cheaper, longer-lasting substitutes for antibodies in drugs (like some cancer treatments) that target large proteins in the body.
Two researchers at UW-Madison, Christina Hull and Luis Populin, have been named winners of biomedical research awards, one for brain disease research and the other for work in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD. Each will get $100,000 a year for three years from the Hartwell Foundation, a Memphis-based foundation that grants awards to individuals for innovative, applied biomedical research to benefit children in the U.S.
Noted: To test the music, Teie partnered with Charles Snowdon from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Snowdon and his team visited 47 cats at 23 different homes and played the music to observe the results.
A new University of Wisconsin study, which shows farmers have recently converted millions of acres of grassland to plant crops like corn, highlights a not-so-obvious downside: converting grassland to cropland has a large carbon footprint.
Corn and soybean cultivation soared in the late 2000s, as U.S. agribusiness rushed to respond to federal legislation rewarding biofuels production. Debate since the institution of the program has centered on the question of whether biofuel crop expansions have come at the expense of plowed-under biodiverse grasslands and prairie ecosystems. A new study largely settles that argument.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers published a study Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters that found corn and soybean prices went sky high between 2008 and 2012, and so did the number of acres that went under the plow in the U.S., including more wetlands in Minnesota than in any other state.
The Final Four schools represented in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament are powerhouses not only on the court, but also in the research lab.
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota converted more wetlands into farmland than any other state when crop prices spiked between 2008 and 2012.
The Final Four schools represented in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament are powerhouses not only on the court, but also in the research lab.
Kate McCoy was out with her 4-year-old son when she got a call from her husband. Their 5-month-old son, Neil, had started having trouble breathing, and they were both now at American Family Children’s Hospital.
Die-hard Kentucky basketball fan Scott Logdon may think twice before rooting against the Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday night. Nearly two years ago, Logdon received a life-saving stem cell donation to combat his acute myeloid leukemia. 22-year-old University of Wisconsin student, Chris Wirz, donated those cells.
Madison — In the frantic, desperate minutes after John Wilkes Booth fired a fatal shot into the president’s head 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln’s unconscious body was carried across the street from Ford’s Theatre to a rooming house.
The widening divide between rich and poor is impacting more than the bank accounts of the have and have-nots. It’s also putting measurable stress on Americans’ health.
Timothy Van Deelen, an assistant professor of forestry and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the practice is associated with putting the deer at risk of contracting CWD. He said baiting and feeding puts deer in close contact with one another, allowing the disease to spread.
The former head of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center has been selected as the university’s first vice chancellor for research and graduate education.
One week of extreme temperatures in Antarctica isn’t something to worry about by itself, but it’s something to watch closely in the coming months and years, says a meteorological expert at the the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
You may not even think twice about turning on the radio in your home to start or end your day, but your cat may have noticed it for completely different reasons.
Science on Tap this week is looking at water quality in the Great Lakes.Director of UW Madison’s Aquatic Sciences Center Jim Hurley says the nature of Great Lakes pollution has changed over the years, now coming from more diffuse sources instead of point ones.
While it may seem worrying that the latest U.S. Census Bureau numbers show declining populations in almost half of all Wisconsin counties last year, one demographer says it’s important to look at the bigger picture.
UW-Madison agronomy professor Bill Tracy and his graduate students created a new variety of sweet corn — a non-hybrid with ears that don’t all look the same, as most farmers and gardeners these days have come to expect.
Noted: Pyle began volunteering this month as part of public service requirement for a literature and medicine class at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s graduating in May with a degree in neurobiology and is applying to medical schools. Pyle is enjoying the experience so much that after her class finishes, she plans to continue volunteering until she goes to medical school next year.
As worldwide panic over Ebola quiets down to a murmur, researchers are hard at work trying to stop the next pandemic. Now a new vaccine may be on the way, thanks to a group of research scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In the same issue of Science, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reported positive results from clinical trials of a new “whole virus” Ebola vaccine.
WASHINGTON – An experimental Ebola vaccine has been shown to effectively protect monkeys against the often-deadly virus, according to a study published Thursday.
A $6 million grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency will fund a Human Models for Analysis of Pathways Center at University of Wisconsin, to analyze how these chemical materials are affecting human physiology, according to a UW statement.
The vaccine was created in the lab of campus virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka. It protected monkeys from Ebola virus infection in experiments conducted at a high-level containment facility in Montana, Kawaoka reported in the journal Science.
A group led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor developed an Ebola whole virus vaccine that has been shown to effectively protect monkeys exposed to the virus, according to a release from UW-Madison.
Another vaccine has joined the race against the often fatal Ebola virus, and this one was developed by a group led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka and his colleagues using a novel experimental platform, published Thursday in the prominent journal Science.
Noted: In the same issue of Science, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reported positive results from clinical trials of a new “whole virus” Ebola vaccine.
As worldwide panic over Ebola quiets down to a murmur, researchers are hard at work trying to stop the next pandemic. Now a new vaccine may be on the way, thanks to a group of research scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Five years ago, RWJF partnered with the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute to try to measure the health of every county in the nation in two ways: current and future.
The idea was local leaders would compare their rankings with others’ and be galvanized into action.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20150325_Robert_Wood_Johnson_Foundation_releases_health_rankings_of_counties.html#XlcF8VCk96O4dZQM.99
By Jenny Seifert and Stephen Carpenter: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and the Yahara lakes may be half a world apart, but they are connected by an opportunity we can’t afford to miss.
At the crack of dawn, Wildlife Ecology assistant professor David Drake and his team of researchers are finding coyotes and red foxes in unique habitats: in suburban backyards, in city parks, along well-traveled, campus paths. The animals are turning up in traps set by Drake and team members, as they try to gauge the scope of these species of wildlife’s spread into an urban setting.
What cat owner hasn’t wondered what their pet was thinking?
Noted: Spencer Black, a Democrat who chaired the House Natural Resources Committee for 26 years and is currently an adjunct professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says there has been in Congress ‘a general attack on the integrity of science, and an unwillingness to listen’. ‘It is not new, but because there are people now who are in power who wish to stifle independent scientific inquiry, it’s a lot worse than it once was,’ Black continues.
At the UW-Madison College of Engineering, the state’s largest engineering school, the past few years have seen a dramatic rise in the number of engineering students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. There were about 4,850 students enrolled in the fall of 2014, which exceeded what the college predicted for the fall of 2015.
UW-Madison’s complete turnaround on monkey maternal deprivation experiments highlights the lack of ethical oversight on this issue.
I and the writers of a couple of rather unkind letters to the editor had the same reaction to a recent bit of news out of UW-Madison concerning music preferences among man’s and woman’s second-best friend:
Noted: A number of natural factors can affect a jet stream’s speed and course, such as mountain ranges and changes in sea-surface temperature patterns. But Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, believes global warming is the main culprit causing recent changes. In 2012, Francis – with Steven Vavrus, a climate modeller from the University of Wisconsin – proposed Arctic warming contributes to the polar jet stream swinging further north and south.
A leading Democrat predicts devastation if Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut over two years to the University of Wisconsin System is adopted. Mostly true.
Quoted: an Robertson, dean of UW-Madison’s College of Engineering, supported the bill in a letter to Baldwin’s office. “We at UW-Madison, College of Engineering, have remained international leaders in advanced manufacturing research and have recently launched initiatives in this research area,” Robertson wrote. “This bill provides important new incentives that could allow us to expand and strengthen those initiatives for our students and industry partners.”
A recent report from the University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center reveals the persistence of a diversity gap in literature for children and adolescents.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin D-Wis. on Wednesday joined four other U.S. senators to introduce bipartisan legislation that would designate 25 national universities as “Manufacturing Universities.”
A bipartisan bill that would designate 25 manufacturing universities across the country and give each one $20 million over four years to step up advanced manufacturing in engineering programs was introduced Wednesday in Congress by lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin D-Wis..
UW-Madison’s decision to halt plans to remove newborn monkeys from their mothers as part of a controversial experiment is a step in the right direction. However, the 40 monkeys involved will still face tremendous suffering and distress for their short lives before being killed for questionable human benefit.
As the lead author on a recent study on music for cats, I’d like to address concerns expressed by some readers in the State Journal.
A mental health researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison won’t take newborn monkeys away from their mothers as part of an upcoming study.
Might I suggest that thousands of dollars could be saved by not funding research by UW-Madison emeritus professor of psychology Charles Snowden.
A survey conducted at University of Wisconsin shows while the number of diverse characters and stories in children’s books increased from 2013-2o14, the overall number of books with diverse content has fallen since 2001.
A UW-Madison mental health researcher plans to start a controversial monkey study by June without one of the most contentious parts: removing newborn monkeys from their mothers.
Nine UW-Madison professors recently won an award for faculty at a critical stage in their careers through nomination by departments, Ph.D. major programs and interdepartmental groups, according to a university press release.
This week is Groundwater Awareness Week. A University of Wisconsin expert says the public often is unaware of the volume of our water resources and where drinking water comes from.
While cats may not like human music, a University of Wisconsin study shows they don’t want to paws music created specifically for them.
A UW-Madison psychology researcher has teamed with a composer to create music that moves the feline soul — in a way that human tunes perhaps never could.
As the snow begins to melt, many wildlife species may be having an easier time getting around. Today in our monthly natural history series Field Notes, Tom Steele from UW Madison’s Kemp Natural Resources Station takes a look at the unlikely survival skills of the wild turkey, and the story of a successful conservation project that threw researchers for a loop.
A new study published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered the more carbon dioxide in the air, the hungrier insects become.
Greek yogurt is frequently praised for its health benefits, but its acid whey byproduct is a growing concern for the environment.
