Category: Research

University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists say they want to give the public a better understanding of why they experiment on animals.

At least one in 13 pregnant women suffers from mental health problems, and that rate jumps to one in three if women have a history of mental health issues, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study that researchers say is the first to systematically examine the issue on a national scale.

“Poor mental health during pregnancy can lead to problems during pregnancy and beyond, like having low birth weight babies or postpartum depression. So we want to try and prevent women from developing mental health problems during pregnancy,” said Whitney Witt, lead author of the study and assistant professor of population health sciences at UW-Madison.

Beneath the soil where college students trod each day, there is a chamber that creeps and crawls and writhes. Here, the humid air is sweet with the odor of rotten flesh and thousands of bugs devour once-living animals, piece by piece. This is UW-Madison?s dermestarium, or colony of dermestid beetles. Nearly half a million strong, the insects dine on the stringy muscle of carcasses, meticulously cleaning the bones of zoological specimens for museum displays and research.

UW-Madison is planning a series of community forums on the use of animals in research. The forums, proposed by Provost Paul DeLuca and Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader, are intended to open up dialogue on the often thorny issue. The forums will be held quarterly with the first one expected to occur in November.

University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists say they want to give the public a better understanding of why they experiment on animals. The school announced it is planning a series of community forums to discuss the animal research

University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists said they want to give the public a better understanding of why they experiment on animals.

The federal government can continue to finance embryonic-stem-cell research, temporarily, because a federal appeals court on Thursday lifted an injunction that had blocked such work. The move added to optimism about eventual victory for university scientists who use this research in a search for cures for a range of devastating diseases.

UW-Madison is planning a series of community forums on the use of animals in research.The forums, proposed by Provost Paul DeLuca and Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader, are intended to open up dialogue on the often thorny issue.

Federal judges Thursday temporarily stayed a human embryonic stem cell research funding cut-off, allowing experiments to continue for now.

Federal judges Thursday temporarily stayed a human embryonic stem cell research funding cut-off, allowing experiments to continue for now.

Following an outcry from the Obama administration and the scientific community, an appeals court Thursday lifted the controversial Aug. 23 injunction placed on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research by Judge Royce C. Lamberth.

Stem cell researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are relieved by a court ruling that will allow their federal funding to continue temporarily.

Former Northwestern University researcher, professor and neurophysiologist Jon Levine assumed the position of Wisconsin National Primate Research Director this month.

A researcher ready to face the challenges ahead recently stepped in to lead one of the University of Wisconsin?s most controversial research centers.

A federal judge denied President Barack Obama?s emergency motion to overturn an injunction halting federal funding for stem cell research Tuesday, turning over the fight to individual states and legal authorities.

Dear Editor: Barbara Franz wrote that ?if you believe scientists can put animals in a sterile and stressful environment and make any conclusions about medical research, you?ve been duped.? I think if she had a better understanding of the findings of her example used to demonstrate her opinion, she might not have come to this conclusion.

Ecologists have long wondered how to tell when a population of animals is about to slide toward extinction. A new study provides a statistical alarm that does just that. “The paper is an important test of early-warning signals,” says ecologist Stephen Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not involved in the work. The result was based on a simple laboratory experiment, but if the technique works in the wild, it could help land managers know when they need to step up their conservation efforts.

The Dalai Lama is living up to his promise to support research at UW-Madison?s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.

A judge has sentenced a former University of Wisconsin-Madison genetics researcher to two years of probation for submitting false data to federal reviewers.

UW-Madison announced a new director of the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, one of eight federally funded primate research centers and the only one in the Midwest. Jon Levine, a neurophysiologist from Northwestern University, took over Sept. 1.

A Federal Judge denied the Justice Department?s request to temporarily delay an order to shut down federal funding for such work on Tuesday.

A federal judge sentenced a former University of Wisconsin associate professor Friday after she pled guilty in July for making false statements on government documents.

Noted: Research by the DNR and University of Wisconsin in 2006 and 2007 on Wisconsin bear population.

A judge has sentenced a former University of Wisconsin-Madison genetics researcher to two years of probation for submitting false data to federal reviewers. Goodwin pleaded guilty in June to one count of making a false statement. She acknowledged she included false data in a progress report to convince federal reviewers that her lab had made more progress than was actually the case. Goodwin worked at UW-Madison from 2000 to 2006.

A former UW-Madison professor was sentenced to two years probation and $100,500 in fines for lying on a federal grant report. Elizabeth B. Goodwin, who was a UW-Madison associate professor of genetics from 2000 to 2006, admitted in June that she manipulated data in a federal grant progress report to convince reviewers she was making more scientific progress than was the case.

In the last days of July, the Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to a clinical trial that has been nearly a decade in the making. The federal agency approved a test of some of the first fruits of human-embryonic-stem-cell research, in a new therapy that could help patients recover from spinal-cord injury.

A report from University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers says Milwaukee County has the highest poverty rate in the state.

A federal judge issued an injunction halting President Barack Obama?s expansion on stem cell research funding Aug. 23, impacting how research is performed at the University of Wisconsin as well as facilities across the nation.