Category: Research

In a new study, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison took this a step further, performing experiments on sleeping or anesthetized macaques.

Researchers sedated macaque monkeys and assessed their brain activity as they slept. Yuri Saalmann, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said: ’Our electrodes have a very different design [to most].

“This allowed us to directly manipulate consciousness and record changes in communication and information flow with a very high degree of spatial and temporal specificity,” study co-author Michelle Redinbaugh, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told Inverse.

“It is unlikely that consciousness is specific to one location in the brain,” said Michelle Redinbaugh, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author of the paper, published Feb. 12 in the journal Neuron.

The paper appears in the journal Waste Management. Coauthors are from NC State and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Support for the research came from Dane County, Wisconsin.

Colleen Witzenburg, PhD, MS at UW-Madison will be receiving a grant.

Ankur Desai’s research has implications for forest restoration, sustainable agriculture.

Real-time data sharing could help expedite development of vaccines, researcher said.

Michelle Redinbaugh, the first author of the new study and a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the primary goal of the experiment was to locate NCCs in the brain.

With the help of several undergraduate researchers, Brusich anesthetizes flies in his lab and sorts them into individual vials. They then use a spring mechanism to launch the vials, at varying angles, against a padded surface. The method was developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison geneticists Dr. David Wassarman and Dr. Barry Ganetzky, Brusich said. It causes the flies to experience the same acceleration, deceleration or rotational forces a human might go through in a car crash.

“I think more people are learning about but I think in general, most people think of Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia,” Dr. Nate Chin said.

The Steady Shot makes insulin injection possible with one hand.

ERC will partner with Wisconsin State Journal for polling done in Wisconsin.

The biggest challenge for us was that the field had it wrong,’ UW doctoral student said.

Experts from Northeastern University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and California State University, Long Beach also participated in the research.

UW Professor Robert Kirchdoerfer explores ways to prevent similar future viral outbreaks.

This field of study is known as immunotherapy, and while it’s showing promise it can be quite expensive. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed artificial nanoparticles that should be cheaper and easier to produce.

“It could come right from here,” said graduate student Nithesh Chandrasekharan. “That’s the goal.”

Kevin Sanchez-Rivera spends many hours in the first-floor labs of the engineering building on campus, just a block or so away from Camp Randall. The graduate student feels like the scientific community has a responsibility to figure out a way to make sure plastics are used more than once.

Average freeze date later than 150 years ago, consequences important to community, UW professor says.

Vatsan Raman, a University of Wisconsin Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, talked about the value of certain biochemicals over others.

American Family Insurance announced the creation of the David R. Anderson chair to direct the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute at the University of Wisconsin, according to UW News. UW Professor Brian Yandell, current director of the DSI, will fill the position.

Although T. gondii can be transmitted to different animals, the parasite cannot reach sexual maturity anywhere other than in the feline intestine. The reason why remained a mystery for many years, until in 2019, an eye-opening study from the University of Wisconsin–Madison revealed what makes the cat gut a hotbed for parasitic sex.

Professor emeritus John Kutzbach from the University of Wisconsin–Madison said: “It’s like two hands meeting. There were stronger summer rains in the Sahara and stronger winter rains in the Mediterranean.”

Herrick and Johnston, both researchers at the UW arboretum, want to test one of the few promising weapons against jumping worms: a low-nitrogen fertilizer called Early Bird, commonly used on golf courses. To assess its effectiveness, they’ve been manually removing all the worms from each of 24 high-walled rings before adding back a known number of victims. (When I ask Herrick what they do with the evicted worms, he says, “We gently chuck them.”)

When seeking graduate and professional degrees, African Americans take on over 50% more debt than white students. On the upside, African Americans also see a bigger payoff to earning such degrees. Whether or not that payoff is enough to make up for the additional debt burden is unclear.

Janelle is by no means alone. Of the 1,060 students at five colleges and universities who answered “no” to having taken an internship for our University of Wisconsin–Madison based College Internship Study survey, 676 – or 64% – stated that they had actually hoped to take an internship but could not. The schools were located in Maryland, South Carolina and Wisconsin.

Kashyap and Toi Labs aren’t the only ones thinking about mining stool and urine for health data. At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Joshua Coon and Ian Miller collected more than 100 samples of their own urine over 10 days to see what it could show about their various lifestyle factors, including nutrition, over-the-counter drug metabolism, exercise, and sleep patterns.

It’s a device designed for diabetics by Shawn Michels. He graduated from UW-Madison’s School of Business in 2018.

“Our paper was less about exotic Beyond the Standard Model scenarios as it was investigating one of the few remaining Standard Model explanations of these odd events ANITA detected,” explained Alex Pizzuto, a graduate student in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the study’s leads, in an email.

When Brett Ranon Nachman, a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis  at the University of Wisconsin, entered graduate school, he noticed the campus’s lack of resources available to students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

“When I first met this engineering team I said, ‘Google can see my driveway, why can’t I see the cancer?’ said Dr. Lee Wilke, a professor of surgery at UW-Madison and the director of UW Health’s Breast Center.

Between 1990 and 2010, the number of housing units next to or within forested areas grew by 60 per cent in the United States, according to research by Volker Radeloff, a forest and wildlife ecology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Christy Remucal explains: A group of chemicals known as PFAS are prompting increasing attention and concern across Wisconsin, turning up in drinking water in Marinette and rivers in Madison and elsewhere around the state. What are these chemicals and why are they such a big deal?

Other experts embrace the new finding. T. gondii “clearly manipulates the crap out of the host,” says Laura Knoll, a parasitologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and there’s no evolutionary reason this manipulation needs to focus on cats.

The lead author, post doctorate research associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, Emmanuel Senft, says the findings from their research are twofold.

An additional study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Medical College of Wisconsin also found a similar pattern: In nearly 90% of the 115 cities they looked at, the highest-rated neighborhoods on the redlining maps had the most tree cover in the city by 2011.

A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that parents who take compassion training could help reduce their children’s stress levels. We talk to a researcher about the study and how reducing stress in childhood could have a positive impact for life.

UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds partnered with the University of California to create a video game that teaches middle schoolers mindfulness and breathing awareness.

Ryan Denu is a medical student and researcher at the university, as well as the founder of the Wisconsin Radon Coalition. He said his two proposals are similar to laws found in other states.