A group of scientists at Harvard University has asked the school’s ethics committees for permission to clone human embryos in order to create stem cells for disease research. If they get the go-ahead, they’ll be the first researchers at a U.S. university to do so.
Quoted: Alta Charo, professor of law and medical ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a former member of the Bioethics Advisory Council during the Clinton administration.
Viewers in Green Bay, Milwaukee, La Crosse and Madison are among the top targets of TV commercials across the country in the battle for the White House, according to a study released Tuesday by UW- Madison’s Wisconsin Advertising Project and Nielsen Monitor-Plus.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Regional cooperation is the way to attract venture capital to Wisconsin, according to the Coalition for Capital Growth and Research, which held its first conference on Friday at UW-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Grainger Hall.
cologists convened at the UW-Madison Pyle Center on Oct. 7 and 8 to raise awareness of Wisconsin’s ecological deterioration. The workshop, titled “The Vanishing Present: Perspectives on Ecological Change in Wisconsin,” brought together UW, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and other regional organizations to share research findings and promote environmental issues.
After a year and a half of planning and fundraising, the University of Minnesota is moving forward with its plan to open a bioscience research incubator in St. Paul’s Midway area.
Wisconsin is once again gaining economic ground, and to keep the momentum going, local and state policymakers should focus more intently on creating jobs in promising technology-oriented industries.
Quintessence Biosciences, Inc., has been tested on lab mice with no apparent harm, company Vice President Laura Strong said at a recent conference. Information supporting this conclusion was presented on October 7 at BioContact Quebec 2004.
The greatest benefit that came up in the talks was the discussion of the relationship between the UW system and the state�s research efforts.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, England – Every year, about 500 women come to the Newcastle Fertility Center, an assisted reproduction clinic in the heart of this northern industrial British city.
They walk under a large, exuberant sign in primary colors that reads “Life” (the “f” in the shape of a chromosome), past a cafe called Twist (the “i” in the shape of a double helix), amid throngs of children parading to the nearby science museum, and then into the bright yellow Life Bioscience Center building.
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Usually they come in hope of conceiving a child, but beginning recently, the patients have been offered an unusual option: the possibility of donating egg cells for the creation of cloned human embryos, which researchers here hope to use to isolate human embryonic stem cells. So far, the laboratory director says, most patients are willing.
Much of politics is timing. For Senator John Kerry, whose aides have called embryonic stem cell research a “sleeper issue” in the presidential race, the death of Christopher Reeve puts a spotlight on the issue just as the senator has begun emphasizing it in the campaign.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ — The American Federation of Teachers today released a report, Recognition and Respect: Standards of Good Practice in the Employment of Graduate Employees, which outlines a coordinated program to improve the financial and professional circumstances of graduate employees. The report, available at http://www.aft.org/pubs- reports/higher_ed/grad_employee_standards.pdf , offers suggestions on issues such as setting standards for compensation, establishing fair employment practices, promoting standards of professional responsibility and ensuring full rights for graduate employees in their union.
“Universities treat graduate employees like teachers and researchers when there is work to be done and as second-class citizens when it comes to compensation and fair treatment,” said AFT’s director of Higher Education Lawrence Gold. The AFT represents more college and university faculty than any other union, and was the first to organize graduate employees.
Kevin Granger sees a challenge not only from the Lou Gehrig’s disease that is slowly eroding his muscular control, but also from his government.
Like some of the people at a recent benefit for him, he questions why the United States government is not solidly behind embryonic stem cell research because of the hope it offers to people like himself.
University of Wisconsin scientists have developed a sensitive, rapid test to detect the presence of the botulinum toxin, the most lethal substance known on earth
Researchers from University of Wisconsin�s National Primate Research Center have received a $6.5 million contract from the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases to characterize primate genes.
Quoted: Gary Lyons, a professor of anatomy at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Some six years ago, a bright scientist at the University of Wisconsin introduced his work to the public through the prestigious journal Science. He reported the first case of isolating human embryonic stem cells. The ground breaking announcement made the scientific, and particularly the medical community, sit up and take notice; the possibilities appeared astonishing.
Quoted: Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin. (Audio.)
Years or decades from now Wayne Geurink, who was paralyzed from the shoulders down in a car crash, might benefit from the work of pioneering stem cell researchers like professor Ian Duncan of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On Tuesday night, Geurink, of the town of Stettin, had to settle for a front row seat in the theater at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County as Duncan talked about the reality versus the promise of stem cell research. But for Geurink, the potential benefits are what make stem cell research so important.
By recreating the influenza virus that killed up to 50 million people in 1918-19, researchers may have identified the gene that turned it into one of the most lethal in human history.
It doesn’t take much to turn a mild strain of flu deadly, according to a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his international team of researchers. Indeed, it appears it took just one gene to make the 1918 Spanish influenza virus into one of the most lethal and pernicious pandemics in history.
MILWAUKEE – First lady Laura Bush defended her husband’s policy on stem cell research Tuesday in a state known for advances in that area, and indirectly criticized Democrats as overstating its immediate promise. (AP)
Madison-based ConjuGon has raised another $1.1 million from angel investors to fund research and development of its technology that can aid companies in developing new drugs to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which annually are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide.
Profile of large animal veterinarian, UW School of Veterinary Medicine.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Wisconsin could lose its carefully established position as a nexus for research and development in the Midwest if more money is not channeled into academic and other research institutions, according to a new report.
Mosquito abatement usually means one thing: blasting the pesky critters with pesticides. Those pesticides, although highly effective, can impair other organisms in the environment.
Que Lan, insect physiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her colleagues in the entomology department are working on a new, more targeted approach to mosquito control: inhibiting their ability to metabolize cholesterol.
In every cartoon I’ve ever watched, when a volcano erupts, it spews out waves of thick orange lava. So when I watch footage of Mount St. Helens nearing eruption again, I’m a little disappointed that all I see is white clouds of steam. Where’s all the lava? Where’s the wall of flaming-red liquid, destroying everything in its path? It happens in Hawaii-why isn’t it happening in Washington?
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4 – Senator John Kerry accused President Bush on Monday of “turning his back on science in favor of ideology,” and he presented himself as the more forward-looking leader who would lift the president’s restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research.
For experts who handle hazardous materials and who specialize in bioterrorism preparedness, there are fears – fears that a chemical or biological terrorism attack will take place under their watch and they won’t know anything has happened until it’s too late.
Now a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists thinks it may help alleviate some of these worries – at least when the neurotoxin botulinum is involved.
Together, the two professors of chemistry and biochemistry have brought in about $2.5 million per year worth of federal grants to the UW, and they provide jobs for about 50 people.
Daily Cardinal staff opinion
The University of Wisconsin is one of the world’s greatest research institutions. Researchers at the UW have been pioneers in furthering the understanding of diseases including cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, such work has given Wisconsin a very strong base in academic-based research, creating thousands of private sector jobs and assuring the state a place in the high-tech, knowledge-based economy that has emerged in the 21st century.
The village of Jackson in Washington County is lobbying to become the home of a proposed University of Wisconsin-Madison research park that would be located between Milwaukee and Madison.
Wisconsin has to make big changes now if it wants to catch up with states that have committed millions of dollars to translate research to revenue, according to a report by the Wisconsin Technology Council that will be released soon.
The Bush administration has held back science, a Nobel laureate said during a visit to UW-Madison. (9/30/04 Capital Times print edition)
An angry crowd protested outside the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinic Wednesday to criticize the university�s decision to stop supporting research for two life-threatening diseases.
Using a vibrating arm less than one-millionth of an inch long and one-thousand times thinner than a human hair, a new transistor toggles on and off through the movement of a single electron.
The single electron transistor (SET) was created by UW-Madison engineering professor Robert Blick and physicist Dominik Scheible of Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.
MADISON, Wis. — About 100 ALS patients and supporters rallied outside the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison Wednesday, saying they are confused and frustrated after a research lab shut down.
Patients of a University of Wisconsin researcher will rally today to reopen a lab that deals with a degenerative neurological condition.
Rather than circling the track, the UW-Madison Formula Society of Automotive Engineers racing team scrutinizes designs and discusses ergonomics.
The World Dairy Expo, which opens this week, typically draws over 75,000 visitors from all over the world to the grounds of the Alliant Energy Center. Student members of the National Agricultural Marketing Association and the Badger Dairy Club in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences play a major role in coordinating the event.
n apple a day may keep the doctor away, and now a purple carrot a day may keep the cardiologist away. Recent campus research suggests the pigments in naturally occurring purple carrots may decrease the risk of heart disease, without affecting the carrots’ taste.
While Bruce Sprinsteen, Dave Matthews and other rock stars sing on a “Vote for Change” concert tour, another disgruntled group – this one scientists -will crisscross the well-worn landscape of battleground states over the next month, giving lectures that will argue that the Bush administration has ignored and misused science.
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a pair of rapid-fire tests for botulinum toxin, a feat that could underpin new technologies to thwart bioterrorism and spur the development of agents to blunt the toxic action of the world�s most poisonous substance.
Sean C. McConnell is the kind of budding young researcher who some scientists and politicians fear could develop a permanent case of the blues over the Bush administration’s current policy on stem-cell research. (Subscription required.)
Gov. Jim Doyle is on the far side of the Pacific this week, hoping to mine a rebounding Japanese economy for financing to help fund bio-science firms in Wisconsin.
ââ?¬Å?My goal on this trip is to connect the right people, talk up Wisconsin and tell people about the research that is coming out of the University of Wisconsin and other research institutions in our state,ââ?¬Â he said.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? A new RFID lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will give an advance showing September 29 to attendees of the its e-business conference.
When it comes to health care policy, Tommy Thompson is on board with his soon-to-be ex-boss on about every issue save one.
Researchers hoping to sew up rights to discoveries involving human embryonic stem (ES) cells in Europe are facing an uphill battle.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? A new kind of science is revolutionizing technology, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison just received more than $13 million to harness its potential during the next five years.
If Wisconsin is serious about going head to head with other states looking for high-tech jobs – and it had better be – it must not drop the ball on stem cell research. To do so would betray Wisconsin’s scientific legacy in this promising new field of biomedical study.
ATLANTA ââ?¬â? If you know that a preacher’s nose is something to eat for Sunday dinner, along with light bread, chances are you’re from the South.
And if you can identify tangle-breeches as a kind of cruller, you’re probably from Pennsylvania or Maryland.
Television was supposed to homogenize language so much so that everyone would talk like the folks on the 6 o’clock news. But that hasn’t happened, says Joan Houston Hall, editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, a multivolume work in progress from Harvard University Press.
University of Wisconsin at Madison: The Center for Templated Synthesis and Assembly at the Nanoscale will receive $13.4-million for research on the self-assembly of complex materials and building blocks, including biological materials, at the nanoscale level. (Subscription required.)
A growing number of seemingly random books rest on the shelves of Carlos Santiago’s office. One is about computer science. Another is in Arabic. All appear to be academic.
They are the publications, authored or edited, by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty. The books are flowing in at the request of Santiago, who started as UWM’s chancellor in July. If the new chancellor cares about anything, it’s tangible results.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison have found a way to use the carbon monoxide to produce more energy in a reaction that can take place at room temperature.
Yesterday the NSF issued awards to six new nanotech centers, from the University of Wisconsin to the University of California at Berkeley, bringing to 14 the number of centers funded since 2000. So far, the foundation has committed a total of $250 million to the effort.
Stem cell research, for all practical purposes, was invented in Wisconsin. But as a national competition for high-tech businesses heats up, the state risks blowing its head start. If that happens, we’ll forfeit thousands of high- wage jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars to more farsighted state
In many species, mothers aggressively defend their offspring from danger. But a mother may abandon her protective instinct and instead cower in fear if the level of a specific hormone in her central nervous system is too high, according to a study published in the August issue of Behavioral Neuroscience.
Despite frequent accusations that John Kerry is a politically inconsistent presidential candidate, there is at least one issue on which he has clearly defined his stance: the future of embryonic stem cell research.
Kerry and his running mate John Edwards say they plan to reverse the Bush administration’s stem cell policies.
“Bush restricts funding for all but a very small number of stem cell lines,” said Kerry spokesperson George Twigg. “John Kerry and John Edwards believe that federal funding should be available for new stem lines as well as the existing ones that are currently authorized.”
The Bush administration, on the other hand, placed a ban on all experimentation with embryos destroyed since June 2001, likening it to the destruction of human life.
This is the first in a series discussing the two presidential candidates� stances on issues directly or indirectly affecting college students and university campuses.
Federal funding for stem-cell research has been one of the most highly publicized yet possibly one of the least understood issues in this year�s election cycle.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19 – The federal government spent $25 million last year on studies involving human embryonic stem cells. But California, in an act of political and scientific rebellion against limits on stem cell research imposed by the Bush White House, may be on the verge of spending $300 million a year in each of the next 10 years on such research.
