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.
Quoted: Robert West of the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Venture capitalist Lutz Giebel raves about the amazing power of stem cells, but even he is not ready to write checks to companies trying to turn them into medical treatments for diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injuries.
Hugh Ilyine considers Wisconsin one of the best places in the world for stem cell research. He should know. Ilyine, the general manager of Stem Cell Sciences Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland, is looking for a U.S. home for his company, and Wisconsin is on a short list. But despite its reputation as a pioneer in the field, Wisconsin faces huge competition from states with much bigger resources.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? Scientists are turning on its head the popular notion that video games can only promote aggressive behavior or passive learning. The explosion of real-world learning applications for games may astound critics of the virtual world.
Compounds with double and triple bonds between carbon atoms abound. In contrast, silicon only reluctantly forms double bonds and, until this week, no compound with a triple bond involving silicon had been synthesized.
Author: Robert West, UW-Madison Department of Chemistry.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have shed light on an innovative way to treat patients with Alzheimer�s disease.
President Bush on Wednesday nominated Arden L. Bement Jr. to lead the National Science Foundation, three days before his term as acting director was set to expire. (Login required.)
The government must begin to support research on new human embryonic stem cell lines, said Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards, on a visit to Madison on Monday.
Madison’s week in the political spotlight began Monday when First Lady Laura Bush and Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards, campaigned in the area on behalf of their spouses.
Bush’s speech focused on how political issues affect women, while Edwards’ address dealt specifically with stem cell research.
Despite a limited budget and faculty, UW-Madison is taking steps to increase the number of graduates in the nursing and biotechnology fields.
In 2004, the School of Nursing increased the enrollment of undergraduate students from 100 to 130 while the biotechnology program graduated its first 10 students with master’s degrees in May, a number which the university hopes to double by 2005.
With a big, gold “Kerry 2004” pin clipped prominently to her purple blazer, Elizabeth Edwards on Monday said her guided tour of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center was educational, not political.
Ten years from now, if you are diagnosed with a cancerous tumor, a shot in the arm might cure you.
“It may involve two shots, but probably not more than that,” said Jamey Weichert, a UW Medical School radiology professor whose startup company, Cellectar, is developing technology that may hold that promise.
As a candidate four years ago, President Bush vowed to try to reduce partisan bickering in Washington. Once in office, his promise to support “sound science” providing neutral guidance for policy decisions struck a similar note. (Subscription required.)
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin anatomy professor James Thomson attempted to ââ?¬Å?separate hype from realityââ?¬Â on Friday in the controversial field of stem cell research, which in some cases uses tissue from human embryos. The pioneer in stem cell research spoke to about 200 at the UW Memorial Union as part of the Plato discussion series for retired people.
One of the major goals of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Integrated Dairy Facilities Program has been completed. Known as Phase I, the college’s Marshfield Agriculture Research Station has now completed the construction of a new laboratory and administrative facility for heifer research–which includes barns, a milking parlor, feeding and animal health care facilities, and supporting infrastructure elements.
UW-Madison received a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, a gift intended for the newly founded Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation. Consisting of 21 state and private colleges across Wisconsin, WiscAMP uses tutoring and expanded courses to increase minority graduation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses.
A group of leading medical journals yesterday released a plan to stop publishing the results of clinical trials unless a test is registered at its outset in a public database.
Nobody on this University of Massachusetts campus imagined that the institution might be creating the next darling of the nanotechnology world when it set out to create a solar-energy company based on a scientific breakthrough by its best-known professor. (Subscription required.)
Tomotherapy uses CT-scan technology to better target tumors and lower the amount of radiation received by healthy tissue. CT scanners obtain their images using the same X-ray radiation used in radiation therapy.
The device, developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and first used there clinically last year, is essentially an X-ray scanner on a circular track.
The future pace and vitality of embryonic stem cell research in Wisconsin is inextricably linked to the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, experts on both sides of the issue say.
MADISON, Wis. – Major advancements in computing performance were developed at the computer science and electrical engineering departments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Adjusted for inflation, wages for black men in the state declined from $15 per hour in the early 1980s to just over $11 in 2003, according to a new report by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a UW-Madison research center for progressive state and local policy.
To most of us, ice cream is merely delicious. But to a food engineering professor like the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison’s Rich Hartel, who has studied the creamy treat for fifteen years, it’s a phenomenon of physics.
Honored: Tamir Moustafa of the University of Wisconsin at Madison (public law). (Subscription required.)
Author: Annie Stunden, chief information officer and director of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.).
UW-Madison researchers think they’ve found a protein that could stop Alzheimer’s disease in its tracks.
Recent recommendations by a Congressional committee have shifted the debate over “open access” — whether scientific journals ought to be freely available to the public — from trading barbs and sound bites in the news media to direct lobbying of the National Institutes of Health, including letter-writing campaigns and meetings with government officials. Two such meetings took place here this week. (Subscription required.)
A western Wisconsin community college is readying workers for an emerging industry that has big potential using materials 50,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
Chippewa Valley Technical College has enrolled its first eight students in a new, two-year technician program that will offer an associate’s degree in nanoscience technology, which involves working with materials so small they can only be viewed under the most powerful microscopes
MADISON ââ?¬â?? Computer systems will become faster, more reliable, easier to use, more robust and have more capabilities in the years to come. Moreover, Gordon Mooreââ?¬â?¢s theory ââ?¬â?? that chip performance will double every 18 months ââ?¬â?? will continue for at least another decade.
Republicans approved a platform on Monday, the opening day of their national convention here, that calls for, among other things, the continuation of President Bush’s policy of limited support for stem-cell research and the enactment of permanent tax cuts that have important implications for colleges. (Subscription required.)
MADISON ââ?¬â? The U.S. Department of Defense has chosen a University of Wisconsin lab to create the electronic training programs that will underpin the federal government’s attempts to curb modern slavery worldwide.
MADISON – Carbon monoxide, or CO, has long been a major technical barrier to the efficient operation of fuel cells. But now, chemical and biological engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have not only cleared that barrier – they also have discovered a method to capture carbon monoxide’s energy.
UW-Madison researchers (James Dumesic, Won Bae Kim, Tobias Voitl & Gabriel Rodriguez-Rivera) report in the 8/27 issue of Science that they have discovered a method that clears a major hurdle to efficient operation of hydrogen fuel cells. (Capital Times, 8/27/04)
A measure on the Nov. 2 ballot in California asks voters to fund stem-cell research in that state. WARF calls it a wake-up call for Wisconsin, which could take a back seat to states that invest in the research.
Madison – An animal rights group has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the deaths of three monkeys this summer at a University of Wisconsin-Madison research center.
Given the number of human pharmaceuticals and hormones that make their way into wastewater, some people are concerned about how well treatment plants that turn sewage into reusable water remove these chemicals.
Joel Pedersen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental chemist co-authored a paper detailing this research.
Given the growing number of out-of-state companies presenting, perhaps they should change the name to the Midwest Life Sciences and Venture Conference.
A new method to probe the forces that control higher order structure in proteins under native conditionsââ?¬â?that is, structure-promoting conditions for the proteinââ?¬â?has been developed by chemists at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
One year after its launch, the Spitzer Space Telescope has already produced intriguing pictures of once-invisible star nurseries and galactic features that are expected to lead to more surprising discoveries.
Quoted: Ed Churchwell, a Spitzer scientist from the University of Wisconsin in Madison
Many research teams are working to make portable sensors that are capable of detecting biological substances like toxins, bacteria and viruses outside the laboratory.
One challenge in making such devices is finding a way for sensing molecules to indicate the presence of target molecules in a way that can be conveyed to the larger world.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison have made a portable sensor that conveys results visually.
