Three years after President Bush announced restrictions on federally funded medical research using stem cells from human embryos, a California panel will meet today to begin the process of granting $3 billion in state money to stem cell researchers.
Author: Paul Whalen, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and The Waisman Center, W. M. Keck Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
(MADISON) The University of Wisconsin is aggressively defending its patent for a semiconductor process developed on campus. The University has just settled out of court with Samsung Electronics, and is now targeting another electronics giant on a similar matter.
Construction began Wednesday on the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Lab, a $24 million building on the UW-Madison Campus.
A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks to mow down city and county ordinances banning the use of lawn fertilizers containing phosphorus.
According to the lawsuit, advocates of the phosphorus ban admit that lawns are only a minor source of phosphorus runoff into lakes. The suit refers to research by the UW- Madison’s O.J. Noer Turfgrass Research Center which asserts that poorly kept, unfertilized lawns contribute 40 percent more phosphorus to runoff than well-maintained, fertilized lawns.
Visitors to Gary Rattmann’s barn dress like they’re in an operating room rather than on a farm.
“We’re very careful,” Rattmann said. “People aren’t allowed in the building unless they’re completely gowned up.”
MADISON, Wis. — A higher education will not only prepare you for the future, but it may also help you live longer.
Over the past eight decades, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, has helped patent and manage discoveries that have profoundly affected human health.
And, some might say, human history
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Recently UW researchers have put enough monitoring equipment on a bicycle to make your head spin, addressed shockwaves in fusion reactors with soap bubbles, and found losing sleep makes you hungry. Interested? Read on.
The business end of a well-aimed flyswatter was but a mild distraction to Wisconsin insects fighting for survival last spring against the titanic forces of nature. “We had so much rain so quickly, and that can be a lot of stress for insects when they’re young,” said Phil Pellitteri, a University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist.
“Dear Editor: Now that the Republican Party has established itself as the party of religion, the Democrats have an opportunity to position themselves for the backlash. Let’s face it, the Republican-controlled Congress and the Bush administration are destroying America’s ability to do basic research – particularly in the physical and environmental sciences.”
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? While the Madison chapter of the World Future Society is dedicated primarily to looking ahead for new social and technological developments, Scott Converse showed them how looking to the past can also be important if they want to see where the next big thing is coming from.
Converse, an information technology director at the UW-Madison School of Business and founder of the Web integration firm Can�t Dance Technologies, spoke to the society on Thursday at the Fluno Center about what he sees as the next big technoloy innovation.
Researchers have devised a non-invasive way for disabled people to communicate simply by thinking about it, a technology that someday might even allow them to regain control of limbs.
It isn�t a shortage of venture capital that�s holding back Wisconsin business start-ups, it�s a flow of deals that comes in drips, not gushers.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? UW-Madison scientists have research on the brain. In the past few months, university biomedical researchers have been pouring their time and effort into projects that can combat neural disorders and help patients live normal lives.
California’s Proposition 71, which backs embryonic stem cell research, was passed by voters last month. The impact of the state’s decision is beginning to be felt around the country. NPR’s Ina Jaffe reports. (Audio.)
The Department of Justice has begun to study Tasers, the electric guns that are increasingly popular with police, in the face of new questions over their safety.
The department has financed a study at the University of Wisconsin to determine how electrical currents move through the body
IRVINE, Calif. – Californians voted by a wide margin last month to pass a landmark $3 billion initiative to fund stem-cell research. That may have been the easy part.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? UW-Madison scientists have research on the brain. In the past few months, university biomedical researchers have been pouring their time and effort into projects that can combat neural disorders and help patients live normal lives. With the projects now entering the area of human testing and getting closer to market, their attention to detail has become more important than ever.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Accessibility technology developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Trace Research and Development Center will help people use the United States Postal Serviceââ?¬â?¢s automated postal centers to send packages this December.
Republican lawmakers say Gov. Jim Doyle�s plans for a $375 million biomedical and technology research institute at UW-Madison might have a hard time getting funding.
People who don’t sleep very long are more likely to be overweight. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that sleep deprivation makes you fatââ?¬â?it could be that both are caused by being a couch potato, by eating badly, or by something else entirely. Researchers at Stanford and the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison looked at how sleep deprivation affects levels of hormones that regulate appetite.
The tongue. It wiggles and waggles and shapes words conveying our brain’s thoughts.It also sends signals to the brain. And by manipulating those signals electronically, Wisconsin scientists say they may be able to help chronically dizzy patients walk again, help Navy divers find their way in murky waters and help the blind to see.
Dear Editor: Trust is in short supply these days for many good reasons, but in the case of the experiment to kill carp in Lake Wingra, the public should place its trust in our lake researchers. I can think of few risk/reward situations where one could be more assured that trust was well placed.
On Dec. 3, more than 100 nervous biomedical engineering students gathered in the Engineering Centers Building for a student design exposition. At noon, what had begun as mere ideas culminated in the presentation of 20 prototypes, potential solutions ranging from artificial limbs to X-rays.
Most graduate students are happy just to earn their degrees. But Jeff Sledge, a Ph.D. student in land resources at UW-Madison, has already found real-world applications for his research.
By Andy Hall Wisconsin State Journal
At age 8, Colin Christison simply hopes to watch a famous professor blow things up.
At age 65, though, UW-Madison chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri sets a lofty goal for the experiments in his annual Christmas show: ” My aim is to reach young adults, young parents and their children to try to motivate them and sustain the natural curiosity that all human beings have.”
By Beth Williams Wisconsin State Journal
The patient, head swaddled with wires going every which way to various black boxes, lies still on a hospital bed. A square cursor moves across a computer screen.
With little obvious effort and no physical motion, the patient uses thought alone to move the cursor up or down until it collides with a target at the edge of the screen.
The UW-Madison experiment is about far more than games, it’s about eventually helping people mentally unlock limbs paralyzed by Lou Gehrig’s disease, strokes or other means.
New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that dairy cows give more milk if they get extra lighting during the winter months. According to Scott Sanford, an outreach specialist in Biological Systems Engineering, the increase in production is an average or four pounds a day for each cow.
For victims of spinal cord injuries and other paralyzing conditions, new research at the UW-Madison Biomedical Department could offer hope for a better life. Professors Justin Williams and Charles Garell have developed what they call a brain computer interface that allows people to control a simple computer program using only their brain.
At age 65, though, UW- Madison chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri sets a lofty goal for the experiments in his annual Christmas show: ” My aim is to reach …
… The UW-Madison experiment is about far more than games, it’s about eventually helping people mentally unlock limbs paralyzed by Lou Gehrig’s disease, strokes …
A floating fungus has landed on soybean crops in the South, and experts say it could mean trouble for Wisconsin farmers and consumers.
Asian soybean rust was discovered last month in Louisiana and has since turned up as far north as Missouri and Tennessee — a finding that was as inevitable as it was unfortunate, said Craig Grau, a soybean pathologist at UW-Madison.
With electrodes implanted directly on their brains, two Madison patients were able to control a computer cursor and play a basic video game just by thinking about it.
MADISON — California may not be able to lure famed stem cell researcher James Thomson away from UW-Madison.
But Thomson, the molecular biologist who first isolated and reproduced human embryonic stem cells, believes many talented post-doctoral researchers will be headed to the� Golden State.
A fish-killing pesticide might be needed to clear carp out of an experimental structure in Lake Wingra next spring. But if the public is dead set against it, scientists working on the project will go to Plan B to reduce the huge number of carp in the small Madison lake.
The waters of Lake Michigan, food and humans all hold a growing amount of a compound used as a flame retardant banned in several European countries, according to University of Wisconsin professors.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Students at the University of Wisconsin’s biomedical engineering department will have a chance to bring a semesterââ?¬â?¢s worth of work into the spotlight on Friday at the Biomedical Engineering Design Expo.
Carl E. Gulbrandsen, managing director of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and president of WiCell Research Institute, spoke recently with WisBusiness.com’s Brian Leaf about recent developments involving stem cells and their implications for Wisconsin.
A spray-on road de-icer caused a crash that left westbound Beltline traffic tied up for more than an hour Wednesday morning, town of Madison police said.
A UW-Madison road safety researcher said Wednesday the question of de-icer causing cars to slip is “intriguing,” but to his knowledge, it hasn’t been studied. Similar crashes on a treated road three years ago in Dane County may soon spark a lawsuit.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDayNews) — Green tea appears to inhibit the spread of prostate cancer in a number of ways, says a study in the Dec. 1 issue of Cancer Research.
Jim Olson can remember fishing in Lake Wingra as a boy with his father and the excitement of catching even the smallest crappie. They are among his fondest memories.
Dick Lathrop, a lakes researcher with the DNR and the UW-Madison limnology department, said the experiment is a unique opportunity.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Mentor Corp. announced that it has begun operating its new manufacturing facility at 535 Science Drive in University Research Park.
The plant was designed specifically for the production of products utilizing the botulinum toxin technology that Mentor licensed from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation last December.
Quoted: Lawrence Sromovsky, a senior scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Countless couples struggle with something that feels like it ought to be the most natural thing in the world – having a baby. Once upon a time – not that long ago, actually – such couples had to resign themselves to a childless life or lay out thousands of dollars to adopt. Not so anymore.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been a leader in reproductive endocrinology for years, and the program took another step forward in April 2003 with the arrival of Dr. Stephen Lindheim and his novel approach to the infertility puzzle.
In 1984, 22-year-old Jennifer Thompson was in her North Carolina home when she felt a knife at her throat.
“Shut up-I’ll kill you,” the assailant growled as he raped her in her darkened bedroom. Despite her terror, she forced her eyes open to desperately memorize his face, his voice, his body size.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 – Congress has cut the budget for the National Science Foundation, an engine for research in science and technology, just two years after endorsing a plan to double the amount given to the agency.
Mentor Biologics has moved into University Research Park. Mentor will make a form of botulinum toxin designed to compete with the popular Botox.
Mentor has patents licensed from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
…Friends of Starkweather Creek helped get $180,000 for creek improvement projects into the city of Madison budget that was approved earlier this month. A new analysis of the creek, from scientific and social perspectives, will be developed by UW-Madison students as part of a multi-disciplinary project in the water resources management program. The efforts could be a last chance to head off further urban pollution of the creek as major development projects are built at the creek’s upper reaches.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26 – As California moves to begin a lushly financed program of embryonic stem cell research, medical ethicists and other skeptics are concerned that the $3 billion that state voters approved for the endeavor could become a bonanza for private profiteers. (Login required.)
If you’ve been wondering whether rapidly melting ice in the Arctic will eventually flood Green Bay and Bayfield, stop worrying. You see, the Great Lakes are higher than the Atlantic Ocean, about 600 feet higher at Lake Superior, said Michael Donahue, president and chief executive of the Great Lakes Commission. So the water flows downhill to the ocean, not uphill to the lakes.
John Magnuson, UW-Madison professor emeritus of limnology, is also quoted.
Colleges and universities in the 2003 fiscal year filed for more patents, identified a greater number of scientific discoveries with commercial potential than ever, and signed a record number of licenses with companies seeking to turn academic inventions into drugs, devices, and other products, according to a report released this week. (Subscription required.)
The big problem with pharmaceuticals in not “supply crisis,” but overuse, inappropriate use and overpricing,” says Dr. Bruce Barrett, assistant professor in the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine. (11/27/04 Capital Times)
Citizens respond to the question “Should the state exclude research on embryonic stem cells from the proposed biotechnology research institute? (11/27/04 Capital Times print edition)
A modest effort to get young children ready for school could pay big educational dividends in future years – but the program’s success depends on you.
Children in a Madison kindergarten program for 4- year-olds, for example, made substantial literacy gains during the pilot project’s first year, UW-Madison researchers say.
When UW-Madison Medical School anatomy students want to work on one, they activate a lever that lifts the body out of the liquid. …
In some circles, it’s long been thought that meditation can make a person more compassionate.
Now there’s scientific evidence that suggests just that.
First it was dairy production, now it’s stem cell research. California is beating us again.
Proposition 71, a $3 billion bond issue pushed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, won 59 percent of the vote on Nov. 2. California will invest $300 million a year for 10 years to create the Institute for Regenerative Medicine to advance embryonic stem cell research.
If you allow your imagination to wander, you can imagine a world ten, 15 or 20 years from now that is quite different from what we know today. Imagine a world where we are not going to our doctors to find out how to treat heart disease or diabetes, but how to prevent them
UW-Madison will play host to more than a dozen events exploring the issues that surround HIV and AIDS this week as part of World Aids Day on Wednesday.
