The University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a second $7 million federal grant, this time to fight breast cancer.
Category: Research
Bike Ride for New Dairy Farmers Kicks-Off on Friday
Wisconsin Ag Connection
A bicycle ride to raise awareness about the crucial need to help Wisconsin’s next generation of dairy farmers begins its journey on Friday.
Kerry Says That, as President, He Would Increase Spending on Scientific Research
Chronicle of Higher Education
Promising that if elected he would be “a president for science,” Sen. John F. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, laid out plans on Thursday to spend more federal dollars on the physical sciences, engineering, and high-risk defense research, as well as to allow every federal science agency to create prizes to encourage technological advances. (Subscription required.)
Studying eagle tourism (Sauk Prairie Eagle)
Sauk Prairie Eagle
Quoted: Kristin Lucas Hall, a graduate student at UW-Madison
Editorial: Stem cells and politics
Capital Times
The University of Wisconsin, in conjunction with other groups, is launching a campaign to convince state legislators that they should not place limits on human embryonic stem cell research. It’s a worthy initiative for a variety of reasons.
Rob Zaleski: Statins can save lives, if people take them
Capital Times
Quoted: Pat McBride, who recently was named associate dean for students in the UW Medical School
Local pharma supplier bought by public firm
Capital Times
Madison-based Tetrionics, a contract manufacturer of pharmaceutical ingredients, has been acquired by St. Louis-based Sigma-Aldrich Corp., a publicly traded firm that makes chemicals for research laboratories. Terms were not disclosed.
Biotechs deal for profile, new markets
Capital Times
Two local biotech companies have signed deals with much larger companies that they believe boost their credibility while giving them access to much larger markets.
Go Ahead And Take A Whiff – We Dare You (Hartford Courant)
Hartford Courant
Sometime very soon a rare plant in a University of Connecticut greenhouse will bloom – and immediately draw crowds to what in all likelihood is the most vile-smelling flower in the world.
Quoted: Mohammad Mehdi Fayyaz, director of the university’s botany department greenhouses and botanical garden. (Reg. required.)
UConn Botanists Cultivate ‘Corpse Flower’ (AP)
Yahoo! News
STORRS, Conn. – Wait till the neighbors get a whiff of this. A giant exotic plant that has not bloomed in the Northeast in more than 60 years is ready to flower at the University of Connecticut’s greenhouses. The “corpse flower” has the odor of 3-day-old road kill, and UConn botanists couldn’t be more excited
GOP forest proposal raises serious issues
Capital Times
Wisconsin is blessed with large public national and state forests, amounting to about 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively, of our forested land.
Donald M. Waller is a professor of botany at the UW-Madison
Seeds of doubt: Globe-trotting genes (Sacramento Bee)
knoxstudio.com
Quoted: Robert Goodman, a professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin
Lift limits on stem cell research
Wisconsin State Journal
As the old political saying goes: In your heart, you know they’re right
Low-Carb Diets Questioned (Smartmoney.com)
SmartMoney.com
Quoted: Dale Schoeller, a nutrition professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
UW, allies stump for stem cells
Capital Times
The University of Wisconsin and its allies in the business community are going on the offensive in the effort to keep state lawmakers from limiting human embryonic stem cell research.
Tom Still: For Fathers And All Of Us, Lift Research Ban
Wisconsin State Journal
My father’s slow retreat in the face of Alzheimer’s disease was typical of how it robs people of their lives.
The private sector now includes space
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Daniel Kammer, a UW-Madison professor of engineering physics, engineering mechanics and astronautics; UW-Madison’s Wilton Sanders, senior physics scientist. Sanders; John Santarius, UW-Madison senior engineering scientist
Butt Out: Quit Smoking
Psychology Today
Quoted: Timothy Baker, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin
Madison biotech establishes research advisory board
Milwaukee Business Journal
Quintessence Biosciences Inc., a Madison biotechnology firm working to develop biological research products, has established a scientific advisory board to guide the company’s cancer products research.
Virus robs addicts of their high
Nature
Quoted: Arnold Ruoho, a pharmacologist at the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison
UW-Madison wins 2004 National Concrete Canoe Competition (Press release)
Aggregate Research Industries
After nearly a year of preparation, and an eight-hundred mile journey to the nation’s capital, students from University of Wisconsin-Madison captured their national title at the 17th annual ASCE/MBT National Concrete Canoe Competition.
Stem Cell Research
The Korea Times
This past May, Nancy Reagan said at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation dinner that “Ronnieââ?¬â?¢s long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him. Because of this, Iââ?¬â?¢m determined to do whatever I can to save other families from this pain. I just donââ?¬â?¢t see how we can turn our backs on this.ââ?¬â?¢Ã¢â?¬â?¢ The former First lady was referring to stem cell research.
PDPW Members Host Mexican Interns
Wisconsin Ag Connection
Three producer members of the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin are adding international flair to their operations this summer by hosting student interns from Monterrey Technical School, Queretaro, Mexico. The student interns are participating in a Mexican-United States Dairyland Partnership between their school and the University of Wisconsin’s Babcock Institute.
U. of Cambridge to Open $30-Million Center on Stem-Cell Research
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Cambridge announced on Monday that it was creating a new $30.3-million center devoted to studies of stem cells. (Subscription required.)
The Massachusetts Senator: Kerry Vows to Lift Bush Limits on Stem-Cell Research
New York Times
Backed by the unusual endorsement of 48 Nobel laureates, Senator John Kerry on Monday accused the Bush administration of letting ideology trump science, and promised to lift the limits on federal financing of stem-cell research and to build an economy “based on innovation, ingenuity and imagination.”