Category: Research

Two people working on cows at the U.W. get their care benefits retracted after ten beef cows die because of neglect.

A spokesperson from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences says the cattle were fed poor quality hay and corn silage over the winter and were left malnourished. Six cows died of complications during birth and the other four died of malnutrition.

An internal investigation by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and its College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, has confirmed that animal abuse is the reason why 10 beef cows died last winter at one of the schools research farms.

Though no scientists are now cloning embryos at UW- Madison, university officials told legislators Monday that it is important to leave the research avenue open in order to study genetic illnesses and pursue potential cures.
Chancellor John Wiley testified before a legislative committee that is considering a proposed ban on all cloning. The ban would prohibit both therapeutic cloning, or cloning to create cells for research and medical treatments, and reproductive cloning, which is cloning to create an embryo that would result in a child.

Ten cows at a UW-Madison research farm died earlier this year after starving through two cold winter months, university officials said Monday.
The beef cattle were fed a diet of poor-quality hay and corn silage in late December and January that apparently left them thin and malnourished, said Ben Miller, assistant dean at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Following the discovery of the cattle, the technician charged with caring for them has quit his post and a professor has been disciplined, he said.

WASHINGTON — Senate majority leader Bill Frist is looking to schedule a vote next month on a controversial bill to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, a move that could provoke President Bush to issue the first veto of his presidency.

MADISON ââ?¬â?? As a kid growing up on Long Island, Rich Hartel recalls that he could eat candy ââ?¬â?? any kind of candy ââ?¬â?? until he was ââ?¬Å?blue in the face.ââ?¬Â

ââ?¬Å?I even stole my dadââ?¬â?¢s licorice jellybeans, and I wasnââ?¬â?¢t that crazy about them,ââ?¬Â admitted Hartel, who is now a professor of food science in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at UW-Madison.

Many of us love Madison for its beautiful lakes, but a new study shows they might face a bleak future.

The UW-Madison study shows it could take a thousand years for Lake Mendota to recover from the effects of phosphorus run-off.

The smell of Lake Mendota on some hot, humid summer afternoons is not something you are likely to read about in Madison tourism pamphlets.
The rank smell of weed and algae-choked shorelines belies the beauty of the blue lake as seen from a distance.

And now, a study from a UW-Madison limnologist shows that without aggressive steps to stem the flow of pollutants, especially phosphorus from fertilizers, into the lake, our legacy to future generations is probably going to be a lake as polluted or even dirtier and more weed-choked than it is today.

Shortly before Congressman James Langevin cast his vote last month to relax federal rules on funding of stem cell research, the Rhode Island Democrat told his colleagues, “I believe one day I will walk again.” Langevin, who has been paralyzed since a gun accident at age 16, pleaded with his colleagues to vote with him. “Stem cell research gives us hope and a reason to believe. … We have a historic opportunity to make a difference for millions of Americans.”

WASHINGTON � The science of stem cell research got its start at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Now, university researchers are appealing to the Senate to lift federal restrictions they say are hampering their effort to develop stem cell therapies for deadly diseases and crippling injuries.

Not all of the research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is in the hard sciences. Some of it’s fluffy, gooey, and even sweet.

Food engineering professor Richard Hartel studies chocolate under microscopes and teaches labs to make jelly beans. He’s also furthered UW’s longstanding involvement in the Institute of Food Technologists, a nonprofit dedicated to making food better. The organization has named him a 2005 fellow.

(MADISON) Researchers at the University of Wisconsin are having some success making a diesel-like liquid fuel from carbohydrates commonly found in plants. (Third item.)

Middleton – A grocer who can put more vegetables into customers’ shopping carts and fewer in the Dumpster because they’ve spoiled is going to make more money.

That’s the basic marketing message for Nutra Park Inc., a young business that has turned a discovery made by a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into a commercial product.

Strier, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Q. How did you find out you’d been elected to the academy?

A. It was a Tuesday morning. I was home actually answering e-mails.

MADISON, Wis. — A pair of animal rights groups are working to open a museum detailing primate suffering between two primate research labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, saying it will serve as a constant reminder of the horrors of animal research.

A UW-led team of international researchers has found a way to get extremely small materials to assemble themselves into patterns for use in electronic circuits.

The finding is important because electronics must be built on an ever-smaller scale, especially if they are to be used in the rapidly growing field of super-small nanotechnology.

The team, led by UW-Madison Prof. Paul Nealey, reported today in the journal Science that it can show how to create complex patterns vital in the production of nanoelectronics.

“Big Bucky” is back.
The rare, big and extremely stinky flower that caused a sensation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when it last bloomed in 2001 could become the world’s largest flower when it blooms again next week.

The titan arum stood at 6 feet 4 inches Thursday in a UW-Madison greenhouse, on pace to rival the world record for cultivated flowers when it blooms and releases its trademark roadkill scent in the coming days.