Category: Research

The University of Wisconsin biomedical engineering department was awarded the Wallace H. Coulter Foundations Translational Research Partnership Award in Biomedical Engineering, officials announced Monday.

Need cash? There’s a Tyme Machine down by the bank near the stop-and-go-lights.

And if you’re not sure where that means, you might want to check with the Dictionary of American Regional English, which contains thousands of colloquial words and phrases used across the nation. Based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the dictionary was a 1960s project of English professor Frederic Cassidy.

Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â?? Motorists driving along the DeNeveu Creek bridge on Highway 151 near Fond du Lac will never notice the difference as they drive over a bridge that uses a new method of construction developed at UW-Madison.

However, highway officials who concern themselves with the cost of road construction may definitely notice the difference in the form of a much longer-lasting road.

UW-Madison keeps turning out life-sustaining and life-changing technologies.

Yet another example is a recent discovery by a UW-Madison virologist that improves on a bird flu vaccine-production technique he helped develop six years ago.

UW-Madison keeps turning out life-sustaining and life-changing technologies.
Yet another example is a recent discovery by a UW-Madison virologist that improves on a bird flu vaccine-production technique he helped develop six years ago.

Quoted: Amy Wong at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who is working on a portable gas-stream technology that zaps bacteria from surfaces like stainless steel

Paul Hanson, with the UW-Madison limnology department, helped Lyons with the computer work on the project. He praised the effort and agreed that Lyons has plugged directly into one very deep lobe of the Wisconsin psyche.

The problem with people who zealously push a cause is that they can push too far. When that happens, they become their own worst enemies. Such was the case on both sides of the political spectrum in the past week.

Activists ratcheted up their opposition to animal experiments at UW-Madison this week by parking a truck with giant video screens outside the homes of animal researchers and broadcasting footage to neighbors of what they said was the torture of monkeys at a campus lab.

Joining a worldwide effort to safeguard humanity from the growing risk of avian influenza, University of Wisconsin researchers developed a more efficient method of producing vaccines to combat the disease.

The head of infectious diseases at UW Medical School says he’s confident the avian flu will show up in North American birds within the next few months. But he says people should not be panicked. That’s because each year, tens of thousands of Americans die from the standard flu…the bird flu has killed less than 100.

Colin Hutt thinks the region’s biotech industry is about to soar, and he wants his start-up public relations firm to be flying with it.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a new way to speed up production of flu vaccines.
The discovery could be helpful to quickly develop large amounts of vaccine in the event of an outbreak of H5N1, commonly known as bird flu.

Scientists say they have found a faster way to make a bird flu vaccine should an outbreak among humans ever occur.
Experts fear the H5N1 virus, which is lethal to humans, will mutate to allow it to spread more easily among people – and could kill up to 50 million

(MADISON) University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers will be part of a controversial new effort to recycle nuclear waste.

Spent nuclear fuel is piling up at many commercial power plants around the nation. Scientists know how to re-process and reuse the fuel, but that�s currently not done in the U.S. nuclear power industry. (Third item.)

Researchers have given us an atlas of the brain. Molecular biologist Julie Simpson is drawing a street map.

News 3 leaned a window a laboratory on Brooks Street was shattered.

To further the public understanding on nanotechnology, the University of Wisconsin, in coordination with various science museums nationwide, is focusing on creating interactive exhibits on this science.

Animal rights activists who planned to open a museum showcasing what they say is the torturous reality of primate research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are headed to court instead.

A law that prohibits state employees from signing contracts of more than $15,000 with the state has hindered UW-Madison professors attempting research with independent companies, UW officials and professors said.

The Primate Freedom Project filed a lawsuit against Budget Bicycles owner Roger Charly for selling his property to UW-Madison despite a previous contractual obligation with the animal rights group.

A special-interest group committed to ending primate testing for scientific research filed a lawsuit with a Madison property owner Oct. 18.

An animal rights group has filed suit against a Madison property owner, claiming the man is legally obligated to sell them the land. The land is wedged between two University of Wisconsin research facilities in which animal experimentation is conducted. The group wants to put an animal rights museum there.

The Primate Freedom Project, as well as Madison animal rights activist Rick Bogle and Los Angeles retired physician Richard McLellan, sued Roger Charly, claiming they had a contract for an option to buy the property from him.

Researchers from UW-Madison are asking hunters during the upcoming deer season to refrain from shooting deer wearing radio collars.

A UW-Madison study of radio-collared deer shows the animals do not move across the landscape nearly as much as was once believed.

Scientists right here in Wisconsin play a large role in helping predict exactly where Wilma will hit.