GenTel BioSurfaces Inc. of Madison announced that it has received five Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants totaling more than $900,000 by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation….The UW-Madison spin-off company specializes in the development, manufacture and distribution of biochips for life sciences, pharmaceutical and diagnostics research.
Quoted: Frank Greer, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) committee on nutrition.
WAUKESHA – Michael Crowley and his family have been trying to get a message to President George W. Bush to support extending stem cell research.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases officials have awarded a five-year, $13.6 million contract to develop a system that will collect and analyze data for biodefense studies.
SRA will receive assistance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s genetics researchers on bioinformatics tools and user interfaces.
The National Institutes of Health will direct $18 million in grants over four years to the creation of at least three stem cell research centers, wrote Thompson, secretary of health and human services, in a letter to U.S. Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). The federal agency also will create a National Embryonic Stem Cell Bank to enhance the distribution of stem cells to researchers
Research published today in the journal PLoS Biology indicates that during migration season the creatures manage to survive on less shuteye without deleterious effects often observed in other sleep-deprived animals.
When it’s time to migrate, sparrows slash the amount of time they spend sleeping. But unlike long-haul truckers or college students cramming for exams, this avian insomnia may not take a serious toll on their cognitive skills. Understanding how the sparrows pull off this trick could provide a fresh insight into the nature of sleep.
Niels Rattenborg is an enthusiastic amateur birder, but he’s also a scientist who studies the behavioral ecology of sleep. So when he hears birds flying at night on their long migration journeys, he has always asked himself, “When do they sleep?”
Now, studying white-crowned sparrows in a laboratory at UW-Madison, Rattenborg has come up with a surprising answer to his question — they go without.
(MADISON) University of Wisconsin researchers are taking a close look at sixty sparrows in order to help soldiers better endure the demands of certain military operations.
When Jim Ferris was a doctoral student, he directed a theatrical production in which each cast member had a disability. All but one of the performers used a wheelchair, so that put a woman who could walk in the minority. “Where do I fit?” she asked. It is a fundamental question for people who live with a disability, says Ferris, a poet who also teaches at the University of Wisconsin and has succeeded in making disability studies an interdisciplinary program there.
The time has come to re-examine the federal policy on stem cell research. Continue reading
The incredible diversity of eyespots and other patterns on the wings of butterflies all comes down to the timing of gene expression, a new study finds.
Quoted: Frank Greer, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Does your lover look just as beautiful to you today as five years ago, or last year or … yesterday?
That depends on what you have learned about the person, according to new research by Kevin Kniffin, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A significant number of researchers are not complying with leading journals’ requirements that they disclose financial ties that could lead to bias, according to a report released on Monday by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a watchdog group. (Subscription required.)
The University of Michigan’s College of Engineering plans to announce today that it landed a $40-million contract from the U.S. Army to continue funding the Automotive Research Center – the largest contract in the university’s history.
Among the five fellows inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters during ceremonies Sunday, July 11, at Monona Terrace were: Michael Fiore, who has pioneered smoking cessation at UW Hospital & Clinics; UW Professor Richard Davidson, who has pioneered Eastern spiritual practices in physical and mental health; and UW Professor Richard Davis, nationally acclaimed jazz bassist. Other inductees were Ellen Kort, Wisconsin’s poet laureate, and Tom Uttech, a renowned landscape painter who taught art for 30 years at UW-Milwaukee. (Caption only)
University of Minnesota officials are stepping up efforts to establish a research park near the transit way that links the school’s campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul. (Registration required.)
Quoted: Aaron Carrel is a pediatric endocrinologist and medical director of the Pediatric Fitness Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
UW-Madison will help protect the nation’s food supply from terrorist attack using a federal grant announced Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security is spending $15 million over three years on an anti-terrorism center at the University of Minnesota. UW-Madison is a partner in the effort and will focus on using biosensors to detect toxins.
A new kind of cranberry is ripening on the vine in Wisconsin, with a major assist from plant scientists at UW-Madison. Known as HyRed, the variety took 10 years to develop and is the first cranberry to be patented.
Quoted: Kevin Kniffin, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The maximum Pell Grant award would remain level, and the budget of the National Institutes of Health would rise slightly, under a spending proposal for the 2005 fiscal year approved on Thursday by an appropriations subcommittee of the House of Representatives. (Subscription required.)
University of Wisconsin students showed off their retrofitted sport utility vehicle that recently won them the FutureTruck competition for the third year in a row….UW-Madison ran away with the competition, beating 14 other universities.
For Dave Brunson, being a UW-Madison professor of veterinary anesthesia means never having time to yawn.
WASHINGTON – When UW-Madison researchers established a collection of human embryonic stem cells six years ago, “Wisconsin became the epicenter of the scientific universe,” according to a recent letter sent to candidates running for state office in November. Despite the breakthrough for the university, however, many of Wisconsin’s Republican candidates view the research as a step in the wrong direction – and are seizing on the issue in their campaigns.
The time has come to reexamine the federal policy on stem cell research.
By developing a computer model that mimics how children learn to read, two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford University track the development of a skilled reader, ultimately showing that phonics gives readers an edge, especially early on.
STORRS — For weeks, the exotic titan arum has stood, erect and awe-inspiring, under the loving gaze of University of Connecticut botanists and gawking visitors. (Login required.)
A new technology developed by a research group headed by Nimmi Ramanujam, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be a “third eye” during breast biopsies and can increase the chance for an accurate clinical diagnosis of breast cancer.
In a sign of growing impatience with the law of the land on stem-cell research, 20 members of Congress, including U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, are trying to pump more federal money into the promising but polarizing science.
The company’sprocess – developed at engineering labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – has a complex technical name but a simple result. Called aqueous phase reforming, it essentially amounts to extracting hydrogen from the sugars found in corn plants and other plants, without increasing emissions of carbon dioxide
It’s been nearly two years since David Busta held a book in his hands, combed his hair, pedaled a bike or took a step from his bed or wheelchair.
The 29-year-old UW-Madison graduate is limited by the injuries he sustained in a freak 30-foot fall outside the Marcus Amphitheater in Milwaukee. Likely paralyzed for life, Busta looks ahead in part by focusing back on his alma mater, where he believes scientists can solve the puzzle of reanimating his arms and legs through the promise of human embryonic stem-cell research.
Critics of human embryonic stem-cell research say they aren’t insensitive to the suffering of paralyzed people and those with debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Uw Specialist Developed Biopsy Technique That Doesn’t Involve Invasive Surgery.
Dog owners faced with some of the worst news they can get about their pets — Champ or Lady might have a brain tumor — have new cause for hope because of developments at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine.
Technology may work surgical miracles, but someone still has to tend the leeches.
MINNEAPOLIS – While much of the nation’s anti-terrorism effort focuses on government buildings and skyscrapers, Frank Busta worries about the plate on the dining room table.
Technology dreamers are always pondering what the next ââ?¬Å?killer appââ?¬Â will be. I want to propose that we have a real killer app on our campuses right now.
Author: Annie Stunden, chief information officer and director of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT)
Wisconsin schools on the whole graduate the vast majority of their students. But there’s an unacceptably wide gap between white graduation rates (87 percent) and those of African-American students (44 percent) and Hispanic students (55 percent).
Cited: UW-Madison research
Quoted: The University of Wisconsin Survey Center.
The Cancer Researcher Had An Impact On Many Graduate Students.
Even as a girl growing up in Germany, it was impossible for Ilse Riegel’s parents to get her to sleep.
Quoted: Reto Huber, who conducted the study at the University of Wisconsin laboratory of Giulio Tononi in Madison
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Quoted: Dr. Nadine Connor, Research director, for the ear, nose and throat division of the University of Wisconsin’s Hospitals and Clinics. (Audio.)
Quoted: Dr. Bret Larget, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Rosemary Keefe wants male professors in the sciences to realize that if women in their classrooms aren’t speaking up, it may have more to do with their social training than not knowing the right answer.
Necedah, Wis. — THICK PATCHES of mosquitoes and bursts of heavy rainfall do little to damp the enthusiasm of cranberry grower William Hatch. On a small, sandy plot at a far edge of his 450-acre marsh lies a thin layer of scrubby vegetation that stands to bring star status to one of the most unsung fruits.
A study-abroad program is giving two UW-Madison graduate students the chance to experience how laboratory research procedures differ outside the United States.
The U.S. Senate approved two bills on Friday, quickly and quietly, that would ratchet up the prosecution and punishment of people who violate copyright law by swapping songs or movies online, or who surreptitiously make video recordings of films in theaters. (Subscription required.)
Quoted: David Redell, a wildlife researcher for the University of Wisconsin.
Two major problems that plague clinical gene therapy work may have finally been solved by a new gene delivery approach that effectively and safely sends genetic material to target cells while eliminating potentially fatal immune responses to viruses typically used to carry DNA into cells.
A new research center focusing on breast cancer will be built at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a $7 million National Institutes of Health grant announced last week.
A stronger focus on embryonic stem cell research has followed the death of former President Ronald Reagan from Alzheimer�s Disease. (Fourth item.)
Quoted: David Beebe, an associate bioengineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, said the ability to build structures smaller than.
Quoted: Professor Kenneth Mayer and his colleagues at the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Doctors are failing to identify smoking status in about half of the adolescent patients seen, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study.
Federal and local health officials at a University of Wisconsin health conference Wednesday said information technology holds the key to better health care.
Say no to gasoline. Forget hybrid cars. Several Texas Tech students are going straight to hydrogen.
Quoted: Clive Svendsen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist.
Reuter – Foss Among Those Helped By Uw Otolaryngology Clinic
On stage, mezzo soprano Kitt Reuter-Foss is every inch the professional. Audiences never knew of her private torment or just how close she came to calling it quits in 1999.
