As the dust settles in these early days after the election, scientists and research officials are taking stock of just how the campaign might have affected the future of human embryonic stem cell research in Wisconsin and on the UW-Madison campus.
California scientists and university officials last week celebrated a major victory after voters there approved a ballot measure to provide $3-billion in state funds over 10 years for stem-cell research. Officials were already planning to set up a mechanism to distribute the money.
Inspire Pharmaceuticals Inc., a publicly traded firm based in Durham, N.C., has reached an agreement to exclusively license several patents from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for use in developing new therapeutics for treating glaucoma.
Quoted: Robin Alta Charo, a medical ethicist and assistant dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Continue getting mammograms, but don’t ignore a constant cough. This is a health message that women shouldn’t ignore, says Dr. Joan Schiller, a medical oncologist at University Hospital….To help raise awareness, she recently founded a nonprofit organization called Women Against Lung Cancer. Its mission is to encourage more research funding.
A recent American College Health Association study found 93.8 percent of students feel psychologically overwhelmed while attending universities.
College students of high religious activity and commitment are in better emotional and mental health than those who have no involvement, according to a University of California-Los Angeles study.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 – Tuesday’s vote by Californians to spend $3 billion on human embryonic stem cell research could speed progress on the promising but controversial field and make the state the epicenter of such research.
Embryonic stem-cell research was born in Wisconsin. It matured in Massachusetts.
But it will grow up in California, nourished by the passage of Proposition 71, which authorizes $3 billion in spending over 10 years, science-policy experts predict. (Login: clipsheet@news.wisc.edu, pass: badgers)
Let the scramble for the cash begin.
By approving a proposition Tuesday that will make $3 billion in state funds available over the next decade for stem cell research, California voters made the state the likely world center for science that may one day lead to treatments for some of the world’s most devastating diseases.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? What does it mean to the biotech community to have a major research facility in your backyard? That question should be thoroughly addressed at the Wisconsin Life Sciences and Venture Conference program named ââ?¬Å?Inside the Labs: Where Science Spawns Novel Therapies.ââ?¬Â The conference will be held November 16 and 17.
With the passage of a $3-billion stem cell bond measure, California moves into uncharted territory, becoming the first state to create a massive program to fund a single field of scientific research.
Scientists around the country who study embryonic stem cells may be mourning four more years of President Bush’s restrictive funding policy, but California scientists are throwing a party, and top researchers in less-funded states are hoping for invitations.
Passage of the $3 billion stem cell research initiative, Proposition 71, could help California repeat one of the most celebrated chapters in its business history if one of its most eminent supporters is right.
Californians have approved putting their state into further debt to fund stem-cell research. In election-day polling, 59 percent of California voters approved Proposition 71, which will provide $3 billion in research grants over the next decade.
California voters sent a clear message in favor of embryonic stem cell research to Washington on Tuesday, backing a bond measure that supports the controversial science and perhaps triggering a research gold rush to the Golden State.
California voters have decided to give their state a huge infusion of money for stem cell research there. University of Wisconsin officials are concerned that could put Wisconsin at a competitive disadvantage in a field pioneered here.
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The eighth annual Arlington Dairy Day will be held at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station next month to provide an opportunity for dairy farmers and others interested in dairy to learn how University of Wisconsin research can help them increase profitability and improve cow health.
A proposal on the California ballot to raise $3-billion in state funds for research involving embryonic stem cells appears headed for approval. But in other states, ballot initiatives that would support colleges met mixed fates. (Subscription required.)
Just months after signing a deal with an industry leader, Madison-based genetic technology company NimbleGen Systems announced that it has raised another $12.75 million in venture funding.
…You probably don’t need to hear that a British scientific journal just listed Madison as ground zero for a plague that, when last unleashed on the world, killed 40 million people.
NimbleGen’s advantage, Palay said, is using technology developed at UW- Madison
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? James Thomson avoided talking politics in a public lecture on the eve of the presidential election, explaining instead the science behind his research into stem cells.
MADISON ââ?¬â?? That giant sucking sound you hear on Wednesday might be a good chunk of the countryââ?¬â?¢s stem cell scientists ââ?¬â?? including some from Wisconsin – being drawn to California.
Spinal cord bruising that occurred about five to 10 days before a euthanasia procedure was responsible for the deteriorating condition of a Racine Zoo giraffe, the zoo announced Monday. The announcement was based on a report commissioned by the zoo from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Research Animal Resources Center.
Dan Quigley is eating ice cream again. After three pancreatic islet cell transplants, the Door County man has become the first Wisconsin resident with Type 1 diabetes to be declared free of the need for insulin injections.
UW-Madison plays a pivotal and unique role in the economy of Madison by attracting people who can command relatively high salaries, said Kevin Reilly, University of Wisconsin System president.
All of the human embryonic stem cells available to federally funded scientists under President Bush’s three-year-old research policy share a previously unrecognized trait that fosters rejection by the immune systems, diminishing their potential as medical treatments, new research indicates. (Login required.)
Quoted: Ted Golos, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Stem Cell Research Program,
This fall, Madison residents have an opportunity to protect their lakes. And they can start in their very own front yards.
Autumn leaf litter washes into street gutters and travels through the storm sewers that lead directly to local lakes. Once there, phosphorus from the leaves fertilizes algae and produces algae blooms that offend the eye and nose, and can be toxic. Local agencies and activists urge Madisonians to manage leaves on their lawns to keep them out of the lakes.
Someday soon the world’s poorest and most hungry may be growing the world’s most sophisticated crops. At the 21st annual World Food Day teleconference, experts discussed the role of agricultural biotechnology in ending world hunger. UW-Madison students, staff and faculty watched the teleconference in the Pyle Center Oct. 15, joining almost one thousand other sites, mainly universities, participating in the event.
hodia Food, now owned by Danisco, has licensed a new bacterial stabilisation system from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, based on technology originally developed to stabilise enzymes.
NIH is the 800-pound gorilla of biological research. Of the $25.4 billion in federal research money that went to academic and private ââ?¬Å?life sciencesââ?¬Â research in 2002, for example, $19.7 billion came from NIH.
Comparing the candidates’ positions.
Stem cell research has emerged as yet another divide between George W. Bush and John Kerry.
If we’re all driving around in hydrogen-powered cars some day, a Madison company could be primarily responsible for producing the fuel. Virent Energy Systems, a fledgling UW-Madison spin-off, has received about $1.4 million in federal grant money for further development over the next three years of its system that derives hydrogen from biomass such as corn stalks.
A protein named after a video game could be key in developing new treatments for prostate and other cancers, doctors said. Clinical trials in humans could begin at the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center sometime in 2005, said Dr. George Wilding, director of the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Wisconsin took a step toward its new statewide video and data network Monday with Governor Jim Doyleââ?¬â?¢s announcement that the state favors the bid of an alliance of SBC and other telcos.
These rats can run.
Run, rats, run.
It’s not graceful movement. Not even for a rat. But it keeps them going in ways their compatriots in a nearby cage cannot match. Those rats are lame, butt-dragging, disabled – as the running rats were not too long ago. Both groups were precisely injured. The damage to their spinal columns mimicked a kind of injury common in humans. Then, a week later, some of the rats received an injection of special cells, cells made from human embryonic stem cells. Those rats run.
The pipeline of engineers in the United States is not as robust as it was a decade ago, but the demand for engineering skills is steadily on the rise. As a result, Milwaukee-area colleges and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are stepping up their recruitment of potential engineering students.
Madison is framed, and often defined by, its lakes.
Whether it means gazing across the 9.842 acres of Lake Mendota from the Union Terrace, fishing in Lake Monona from the bike path or swimming in Lake Wingra, the lakes make the city a unique confluence of water and land. As a city built on an isthmus, Madison’s lakes, as part of the Yahara Lake chain, can be, simultaneously, a wonder to behold and a threat to its health.
John Magnuson, professor emeritus of zoology, has an office in the limnology laboratory overlooking Lake Mendota. He sees the lakes as a source of the city’s allure and their condition as a consequence of that allure.
William Hoch is receiving attention for his theory that autumn colors provide leaves with sunscreen.
California voters on Nov. 2 will decide whether to authorize a powerful burst of state funding for stem cell research there. Proposition 71 on the ballot would provide about $3 billion in tax-free state bonds for stem cell research in that state over a 10-year period.
Just days after publishing a well-received study in which they engineered the 1918 pandemic influenza virus to find out why it was so deadly, researchers are catching flak from critics who say their safety precautions were inadequate. The lead investigator, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, contends his team followed federal guidelines. But critics say these rules are out of date
In order to attract the high-tech jobs that are fueling the new economy, Wisconsin needs to protect its vaunted education system and do a better job branding itself, according to a group of academic and business panelists who spoke Wednesday night at the Kohl Center on the UW-Madison campus. .
TORONTO ââ?¬â? The decision by a team of U.S. researchers to ease bio-security precautions for a reconstituted version of the 1918 pandemic flu virus – the most lethal killing machine in viral history – is sparking debate within the international scientific community.
The 1918 flu virus spread across the world in three months and killed at least 40 million people. If it escaped from a lab today, the death toll could be far higher.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Virent, a University of Wisconsin-Madison spinoff working on hydrogen energy sources, has received a $2 million grant from the Department of Energy for continued research.
The University of Wisconsin is one of seven sites in the country selected for a grant award from the National Institutes of Health to advance medical training and research. The $14 million three-to-five year grant will fund the Training and Education to Advance Multidisciplinary Research, or TEAM, program.
Thirty UW-Madison students in an introductory engineering class are putting their heads together to help disabled people navigate storefront entrances on State Street.
As trees across the northern United States turn gold and crimson, scientists are debating exactly what those colors are for.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin-Madison intends to train more clinical researchers, whose work is rising in prestige and importance in medical science, with the help of a $14 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Quoted: James Thomson, a professor of anatomy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the first to extract human embryonic stem cells. (Login required.)
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has appointed Maliyakal John to serve as general director for the WiSys Technology Foundation, which licenses University of Wisconsin System technologies.
In the last 50 years, airplanes, internet, telephones and global markets have all shortened the divides between countries to make the world a truly porous place. Front and center in this globalization project has been the United States.
Put your car on a high-carb diet. That’s almost literally what technology developed by Virent Energy Systems, 3591 Anderson St., would do. With oil prices above $50 a barrel, a U.S. Department of Energy official Thursday announced a $1.94 million federal research grant for Virent and several partners to produce hydrogen that could power vehicles from water and sugar that could be produced from corn.
At a university where scientific research abounds, University of Wisconsin researchers system-wide can enjoy a new cross-campus collaboration in sharing technology and resources.
Virent Energy Systems of Madison on Thursday received a federal grant of nearly $2 million to continue pursuing research aimed at making cars run on hydrogen instead of gasoline. The company was created to bring to market technology patented by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
A new report from the liberal UW-Madison Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) says 22.8 percent of state families are low-income. That compares to 27.4 percent nationally, the report said.
Details from a large-scale survey focusing on treatment goals for schizophrenia shed new light on what physicians and people with schizophrenia feel is important for long-term quality care, according to Ronald J. Diamond, M.D, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
