A University of Wisconsin professor and four other medical scientists from around the country recently discovered a toxic molecule that causes disease in humans and simultaneously allows survival in small Pacific Ocean squid.
No doubt to their chagrin, opponents of embryonic stem cell experiments have only helped Wisconsin hold the high ground in this promising branch of research. But that edge is eroding fast.
As California moves quickly toward setting up a $3-billion embryonic stem cell research agency, other states are scrambling to prevent their top researchers from being raided
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google is setting out to make better sense of all the scholarly work stored on the Web. The online search company’s new service, unveiled late Wednesday, draws upon newly developed algorithms to list the academic research that appears to be most relevant to a search request. Google previously hadn’t been able to separate the scholarly content from commercial Web sites.
The UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations announced that it will start a program next year to help create, support and sustain start-up companies that are based on research and technology developed at the UW.
Gov. Jim Doyle is ready to take on California to defend Wisconsin’s crown as king of the stem cell states. About two weeks after California voters approved a $3 billion, 10-year referendum for stem cell research, Doyle responded by putting together a comprehensive package to showcase and build on Wisconsin’s investment in biotechnology.
Arthur Caplan, the head of the medical ethics department at the University of Pennsylvania, put it bluntly enough in a recent news story: “Wisconsin’s leadership ended Nov. 2.”
Wisconsin’s governor, Jim Doyle, announced a plan on Wednesday to spend nearly $750-million over several years on biotechnology and stem-cell research at the University of Wisconsin and several hospitals in the state.
In a public-private partnership…Governor Doyle says biotechnology research in the state…including stem cell research…will get a nearly $750 million boost. Standing alongside UW scientists…Doyle unveiled plans for a $375 millionÃ? facility on the UW campus.
Gov. Jim Doyle announced Wisconsin’s plan to invest in biotechnology and health science industries Tuesday at the Genetics/Biotechnology center on Henry Mall. With recent major contributions toward research in California, the governor, along with UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, emphasized the need to intensify Wisconsin’s own biomedical findings.
Gov. Jim Doyle announced a proposal Wednesday afternoon to construct a $375 million research institution on the University of Wisconsin campus called the ââ?¬Å?Wisconsin Institution for Discovery.ââ?¬Â
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Wisconsin should hold on to its advantage in health and life-science research by drawing together $375 million in public and private funding for a new research center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, Governor Jim Doyle said on Wednesday.
As a center of technological innovation, Wisconsin competes with any region in the country, but the state’s growing biotechnology sector needs an influx of capital and experienced executive talent to thrive, according to a panel of venture capital managers.
Gov. Jim Doyle and UW- Madison administrators Wednesday escalated Wisconsin’s race with California for stem-cell supremacy.
They said state and private dollars will be used to build a $375 million institute on campus to centralize research aimed at curing diseases such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes.
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle announced plans Wednesday to invest nearly $750 million to support human embryonic stem cell research and other medical experiments.
Gov. Jim Doyle announced plans Wednesday for a $375 million institute for stem cell and other biomedical research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The institute is part of a nearly $750 million plan to bolster the state’s position in the growing biotech field.
Gov. Jim Doyle today announced a $375 million research institute for the UW-Madison campus to help the state compete in the field of stem cell research. The proposal will need to be approved by the Legislature as part of the state budget…. The governor is also asking the Legislature to invest $1.5 million in Alzheimer’s disease research.
Most area businesses are expecting bigger sales in 2005 but that won’t necessarily mean a fatter paycheck for workers. The annual Dane County Economic Survey released today shows that 78 percent of firms here are projecting increased revenues next year. That’s up from 65 percent in 2004. The survey was conducted by the UW-Madison A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research.
Gov. Jim Doyle is set to unveil today a multifaceted strategy to maintain Wisconsin’s importance in the growing scientific fields of stem cell research and biotechnology.
The state�s leadership role in stem cell research is in jeopardy. California voters approved spending $3 billion over the next decade on embryonic stem cell research. California voters were persuaded that the initial investment would more than pay for itself. It�s clear in any case that if Wisconsin doesn�t pursue this research, others will. Besides California, several countries are also making huge monetary investments in this research.
MILWAUKEE ââ?¬â?? At the State University of New York in Albany, Carlos Santiago helped forge a partnership between IBM and the campus that led to the creation of a $1.5 billion “center of excellence.”
Now that he’s taken up residence in Wisconsin, Santiago sees no reason why UW-Milwaukee can’t aspire to do the same.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s stem cell research is taking a big step forward. News 3 has learned Gov. Jim Doyle will announce Wednesday a plan to construct a research facility for stem cell work on the UW campus, geared toward keeping medical researchers in the Badger state.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law and Medical Schools
Entrepreneurs on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will have a new resource to help them navigate the process of starting a company and the many related centers on campus.
The Office of Corporate Relations is heading the New Business Start-Up Initiative, which is to include events, publications and both one-ond-one and class-based training. This assistance will be available to UW=-Madison faculty, staff and students.
Will all human embryonic stem (hES) cell research move to California in light of the recent passage of a $3 billion bond initiative that is intended to make California the leader in a technology discovered by UW-Madison researcher Dr. James Thomson?
When people think of onions they tend to think of bad breath and watery eyes. But what they sometimes overlook are onions’ many health benefits.
According to UW-Madison professor of nutritional sciences Pete Anderson, eating onions has been shown to lower cholesterol, benefit the health of the heart and reduce the risk of cancer. Onions contain thiosulfinates, chemicals that, among other benefits, appear to decrease the risk of a heart attack by limiting the degree to which blood platelets stick together.
The feeding habits of a well-known dinosaur have become more defined thanks to UW-Madison senior Daniel Hyslop, who discovered a leftover dinosaur bone that indicates the Tyrannosaurus rex may have ripped meat off the bones of its prey rather than eating prey whole, bones and all.
Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to announce soon a strategy to keep Wisconsin at the forefront of stem cell research, despite a California vote to spend billions in public dollars on the effort.
R. Timothy Mulcahy, a top research official at UW-Madison, is leaving to go to the University of Minnesota. Mulcahy has been the University of Wisconsin’s point man on stem cell research and compliance with federal regulations on human and animal research, as well as some biological agents.
The six-month-long search for a new University vice president for research has ended.
R. Timothy Mulcahy, an associate dean for biological sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate school, will move to Minnesota to take the position Feb. 1. He will replace interim vice president for research David Hamilton, who plans to return to teaching.
According to the U.S. Patent Office, a Wisconsin foundation has the right to royalties that might be generated by stem cell therapies. But there are signs that a worldwide battle on that issue is already taking shape. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, known as WARF, holds among its 40 stem cell patents a basic one that broadly covers the preparation of embryonic stem cells. Basic patents, often the underpinnings of whole new industries, are highly prized and frequently contested.
Gov. Jim Doyle says he plans within the next two weeks to announce a strategy to expand the state’s position in the tantalizing but still-unproven realm of stem cell research.
In the midst of ongoing competition among public universities to remain at the forefront of the research field, administrators with a proven record are highly valued and sought. UW-Madison recently lost such an administrator to the University of Minnesota, a comparable national research university.
Global warming is liquefying the Arctic two times faster than it is heating the rest of the planet in what may be an omen for worldwide climate disasters in the next century, according to an eight-nation study released last week.
R. Timothy Mulcahy, associate vice chancellor for research policy, professor of pharmacology and associate dean for biological sciences at the University of Wisconsin graduate school, has announced he is leaving his top research post.
You’ve heard the old saying that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure?
Quoted: Ron Numbers, a medical historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on the evolution/ creation debate.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? This week’s Wisconsin Life Sciences and Venture Conference will highlight the state’s emergence as a center for drug therapy start-ups.
Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to soon announce a strategy to keep Wisconsin at the forefront of stem-cell research despite a California vote to spend billions on the effort.
MADISON – Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to soon announce a strategy to keep Wisconsin at the forefront of stem cell research, despite a California vote to spend billions in public money on the effort.
Starkweather Creek on Madison’s East Side is far from pristine, its environs anything but wild.
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The new mantra among the nation’s rising medical researchers may sound like this: Go west, young scientist. Or, more to the point: Follow the money.
The loss of seemingly inconsequential animal species in the marine benthos – the top 6 inches or so of mud and sediment on the floors of the worldââ?¬â?¢s oceans – is giving scientists a new look ahead at the consequences of the steady decline of the worldââ?¬â?¢s biological diversity.
This is one of the first stabs at trying to see what will happen in ocean ecosystems as species go extinct,” says Bradley Cardinale, a University of Wisconsin-Madison postdoctoral fellow in zoology and a co-author of the paper.
MADISON, Wis. — A California referendum that passed last week will pump $3 billion into that state’s stem cell research, while tough federal restrictions imposed by President George W. Bush remain firm
MADISON ââ?¬â?? Faculty, staff and students at UW-Madison who want to start their own companies will soon have more help, thanks to a new program being unveiled today
In the southern hemisphere of Uranus, as summer draws to a close, methane storm clouds brew beneath the planet’s thick blue-green haze. New observations from two research teams using the Keck II 10-meter telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii reveal unprecedented cloud behavior, fast winds, and a unique ring system.
An investment of $8.5 million from a venture-capital syndicate has drawn a St. Louis biotech company to Wisconsin, where it will inhabit brand-new lab facilities at Milwaukee County Research Park, the Wisconsin Technology Network reported.
Although a number of national policies are set to go under the Bush administration�s microscope during his second term, one initiative is likely to remain untouched for the next four years: regulations and limitations over the federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Internet Scout Project will use a recent $2.6 million grant to develop a program that will provide community and technical college educators access to the National Science Digital Library.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of foreign students pursuing advanced degrees at U.S. universities fell this year, strengthening a trend that began after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madison was one of seven U.S. research universities to receive a grant from the Intel Advanced Computing Center on Monday at the SC2004 high-power computing conference in Philadelphia.
Ask Larry Sromovsky about the weather and he’ll describe huge, churning storms that last for years, 250 mph winds and monstrous hurricanes.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 21st century gold rush is on in California after voters approved $3 billion for human embryonic stem cell research. At least one out-of-state biotech company is already making plans to move to California…And universities are hoping to recruit some of the field’s brightest minds to take part in the biggest state-run research project in U.S. history. (Provost Peter Spear is quoted in this article in the 11/10/04 Capital Times print edition.)
Meat-eating bipeds who gnaw on baby-back ribs may share everything but the sauce and the napkins with the gnawing style of Tyrannosaurus rex, a UW-Madison undergraduate student has discovered.
The dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences says this academic year will be his last in that post. Elton Aberle, who led the CALS division for the past six years, announced Monday that he will be retiring next fall.
Madison, Wis. You’ve got to hand it to those risk-addicted Californians: Saddled with a debt running into the tens of billions of dollars, they don’t slice up their credit cards and pinch pennies. They borrow even more money to invest in their future.
The passage of a California ballot initiative to fund stem-cell research could be harmful to UW-Madison, one of the leading embryonic stem-cell research centers in the country,
Proposition 71, which passed last Tuesday, provides $3 billion for stem-cell research in California. Scientists can use this money for research involving new embryonic stem-cell lines, which is prohibited for projects using federal funding.
Most people know the Church forced Galileo to recant his “blasphemy” after he asserted the Earth rotates around the sun, and that John T. Scopes was convicted in 1925 of teaching evolution in a Tennessee classroom.
We like to think ours is a more enlightened age, where science is unrestrained by hidden agendas and influences. But the current presidential administration has caused people to question their naivet�©.
People with glaucoma, a disease that can lead to blindness, might some day be better able to treat their illness, thanks to an agreement between UW-Madison and a North Carolina biopharmaceutical company.
The UW Board of Regents approved construction of a $133.9 million research center Friday near UW Hospital and the recently opened Health Sciences Learning Center.
