ATLANTA ? Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spent much of Wednesday completing a report that would let the public see, in embarrassing detail, how the sloppy handling of anthrax by scientists at its headquarters here had potentially exposed dozens of employees to the deadly bacteria.
A new way of combating invasive smelt is meeting with mixed success ? literally ? at the end of a two-year study. The Crystal Lake Mixing Project was able to get rid of most of the smelt in Crystal Lake?but not all of it.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding a project involving the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Farmers? Market Coalition to better track sales at farmers? markets and collect other information that could be useful to vendors and communities.
Can feminism improve science? The organizers of University of Wisconsin-Madison?s new post-doctorate in ?feminist biology? ? alleged to be the first of its kind in the nation and probably the world ? would answer with an emphatic ?Yes!?
Noted: But there can be no doubt that recreating the virus from scratch would be hugely controversial ? scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently provoked a storm of criticism when they recreated the deadly Spanish influenza virus that killed millions in the aftermath of the first world war, using fragments of avian flu viruses found in wild ducks. The researchers claimed the virus could inform influenza vaccine development.
A June 25 editorial in the journal Nature should give Madisonians pause. The editors voiced serious concern over influenza research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When it comes to people attracting mosquitoes, everyone is a little different and the attractiveness level is somewhat controlled by genetics says P.J. Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Here to provide five straightforward, practical tips on how to incorporate meditation into your daily life (even during boring meetings), is Dr. Richard J. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the founder of its Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. He is also the co-author of ?The Emotional Life of Your Brain.?
At 4PM ET, the German soccer team will face Brazil in The World Cup semi-finals. The Germans might not have made it. Just a few days ago, the team could have been stopped, not by their opponent France, but by a virus that caused seven of the team?s players to come down with flu-like symptoms.
UW-Madison announced the launch of three new research projects last week relating to the state?s water supply and use.
By now, the poor sales of Hillary Clinton?s new book “Hard Choices” are well-documented. (Relatively poor, we will add, given the complex topography of bookselling.)
You need a book to take on holiday but you don?t want a ?summer read?, you want something that will broaden your mind.
Researchers at northern Wisconsin?s Trout Lake Station have taken the lead in forming a global network of 400 scientists who share data collected from lakes in 40 different countries.
Two years ago, after returning home to the University of Wisconsin?Madison from a research trip in the forests of equatorial Africa, Tony Goldberg discovered an unwanted souvenir. There was a tick, the size of a pencil eraser, nestled inside his right nostril.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has shown that chronic stress of poverty, neglect and physical abuse in early life may shrink the parts of a child?s developing brain responsible for memory, learning and processing emotion.
When Burke unveiled her jobs plan in March she made a point of saying that she would veto any legislation banning stem cell research ? which is vitally important at UW-Madison.
The Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District is working on becoming more energy independent by transforming table scraps from UW?Madison into an energy resource.
The scientific community has been abuzz with word going around about a yet-to-be released study that manipulated mutant viruses from a devastating 2009 Influenza outbreak, in order to create a pandemic strain of the virus that could dodge the human immune system.
University of Wisconsin researchers have invented a new tool to control the invasive smelt population on inland waters: the Gradual Entrainment Lake Inverter (GELI).
One of the world?s leading vaccine experts has questioned the scientific rationale behind controversial research on the 2009 strain of pandemic flu virus undertaken by Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Scientists theorize that catfish used to communicate by making bubbles. Other catfish would see messages in the bubbles and react accordingly.?
The UW-Madison Influenza Research Institute says its work is both necessary and safe.
The Higher Education Video Game Alliance was launched Tuesday at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo. It is comprised of video game design programs at 13 universities that will act as a forum to align efforts and information in a “drastically growing sector,” says Constance Steinkuehler, the alliance?s first executive director.
At UW-Madison, we do not take lightly our responsibility for its safe and secure conduct. The Influenza Research Institute is a high-level biosafety facility designated Biosafety Level 3 Agriculture, the highest in the Level 3 category. It operates under conditions very different from most other Biosafety Level 3 labs and was constructed expressly for the influenza work performed there.
Senior scientists have criticised an American university for allowing controversial research on enhancing a pandemic strain of flu virus to be undertaken in a laboratory with a relatively low level of biosecurity.
What was extraordinary about the great flu pandemic of 2018 was not only that it came exactly 100 years after the Spanish flu of 1918, but that it also killed 5 per cent of the world?s population.
According to articles in the UK press, Yoshi Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has “deliberately created a pandemic strain of flu that can evade the human immune system”. Some reports even allege the work recreates the deadly 1918 pandemic flu virus in a form that resists vaccines.
There is no such thing as zero risk when it comes to the study of pathogenic agents such as influenza. But the research, which has been deemed a priority by both the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization, is critical to our ability to forecast, combat and potentially prevent the outbreak of deadly pandemic disease.
In How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg celebrates the virtues of mathematics, especially when they?re taught well. He writes that a math teacher has to be a guide to good reasoning, and “a math course that fails do so is essentially teaching the student to be a very slow, buggy version of Microsoft Excel. And, let?s be frank, that really is what many of our math courses are doing.”
A controversial scientist who carried out provocative research on making influenza viruses more infectious has completed his most dangerous experiment to date by deliberately creating a pandemic strain of flu that can evade the human immune system.
A scientist who carried out research on making influenza viruses more infectious has deliberately created a potentially lethal strain of flu that can evade the human immune system.
APPLETON ? From Milwaukee to Menasha, dozens have dished on their local wordology for the Dictionary of American Regional English re-haul, but researchers are hoping for more.
The online science magazine The Why Files from UW-Madison has been named one of the 25 best teaching and learning websites.
Reading Sunday?s article “Biosafety expert: Work ?scary,?” about UW-Madison?s Yoshihiro Kawaoka?s research with deadly flu viruses, reminds me of old-fashioned vampire movies.
Wine lovers can feel a bit more confident that the small print on back labels won?t grow too blurry as they age. Research from the University of Wisconsin suggests that moderate wine consumption can lower the risk of long-term visual impairment.
About half of all young adults are struggling to achieve financial security in their transition from college to adulthood and are continuing to rely on family for financial support, despite being employed full-time, according to the latest report from a longitudinal study.
Dipesh Navsaria, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said that in order to address the achievement gap, the focus must be on the first 1,000 days of a child’s life. Research shows that significant development occurs in the brain during the first three years of a child’s life, and being read to daily can build and stimulate a base for cognitive and emotional development.
Noted: O?Brien is an academic, an epidemiologist with a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The writer, professor emeritus at UW-Eau Claire and a protege of the late UW primate researcher Harry Harlow, defends Harlow’s research techniques.
The South American electric eel and hundreds of other electric fish evolved in six distinct lines over a period of 400 million years, developing an electric organ from what had once been muscle and providing a fascinating laboratory for the study of evolution.
Sociologist Alice Goffman is a 5-foot-2-inch white woman who grew up in privilege in Philadelphia?s historic and affluent neighborhood of Center City.
The news last week of an accident involving live anthrax bacteria at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, is troubling. Some 84 workers were potentially exposed to the deadly Ames strain at three CDC labs. But the incident will cause much wider ripples: it highlights the risks of the current proliferation of biocontainment labs and work on dangerous pathogens. If an accident can happen at the CDC, then it can happen anywhere.
UW-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka says he?s creating potentially deadly flu viruses to help prevent a pandemic, but a campus biosafety panel member says the research could cause more harm than good because the viruses could escape from the lab.
I strongly concur with the epidemiologists from Harvard and Yale who warned about the potential release of a possible virulent virus in the June 12 article about UW-Madison flu research.
Alzheimer?s disease research is one of the first projects supported by a fund created to commercialize medical technology developed by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore will take snap shots of otherwise elusive predator mammals later this summer.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently discovered that at least 75 workers there had been exposed to possible anthrax infection.
?This is the first complete genome sequence for an electric fish, in particular a strong electric fish,? said Michael Sussman, a biochemistry professor at UW-Madison who?s also director of the UW Biotechnology Center. Along with graduate students Lindsay Traeger and Jeremy Volkening, Sussman helped lead the 16 researchers from throughout the country who were part of the study.
For the first time, the genome of the electric eel has been sequenced.
The electric eel is one of the many creatures Charles Darwin sliced up and examined in his years aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. When he cut it open, he found that 80 percent of the fish?s body was taken up by three organs made of what looked like muscle tissue, but not quite. This is where the animal makes electricity.
Electric fish evolved the ability to shock by converting a simple muscle into an organ capable of generating an electric field, scientists have discovered.
The electric eel?s powerful ability to deliver deadly shocks ? up to 600 volts ? makes it the most famous electric fish, but hundreds of other species produce weaker electric fields. Now, a new genetic study of electric fish has revealed the surprising way they got electrified.
Using sediment core evidence taken from the sea floor off Greenland?s coast, the team of researchers from Oregon State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison were able to estimate the extent of the Greenland Ice Sheet during an interglacial period 400,000 years ago, when global sea levels were much higher than today.
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) system will get a performance upgrade as UW-Madison becomes one of the few institutions in the world to have an Intel Parallel Computing Center.
Like many UW students, Jordan Ebert found himself in Dallas this March, cheering on the Wisconsin Badgers for their Final Four match-up with the Kentucky Wildcats, adding to a list of memorable moments in his young undergraduate career.
For Cathy Middlecamp, placing academic disciplines in the context of sustainability comes naturally.
In March, BICEP2, a collaboration of physicists, announced that it had found evidence of primordial gravitational waves, ripples in space and time that are considered a “smoking gun” for a period of inflation in the early universe. Quoted: Daniel Chung, associate professor of physics (not in Experts Guide) and Peter Timbie, professor of physics (in Experts Guide).
It may seem as though every new day brings an announcement of a scientific breakthrough of the highest order. Should you freak out about every new record-breaking neutrino? In this week?s “Ask a Physicist,” we?ll find out.
According to Edgar Feige, economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, unreported income totals $2 trillion in the U.S. That includes illegal activities like drug dealing, but it also includes side jobs like nannies and eBay sellers.
Is student loan debt causing young adults to retreat from the housing market en masse? No, but it?s having some impact, and the debt burden appears to be hitting black borrowers harder than whites, says a recent paper from researchers Jason Houle of Dartmouth College and Lawrence Berger of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
