Category: Research

Years ago, a University of Wisconsin-Madison study showed that autism mothers experience levels of stress comparable to those of combat soldiers — and that’s without a global pandemic.

University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine professor of pathobiological sciences Yoshihiro Kawaoka led the study in which researchers administered to three cats SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a human patient. The following day, the researchers swabbed the nasal passages of the cats and were able to detect the virus in two of the animals, an announcement said. Within three days, they detected the virus in all of the cats.

The novel coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic can be transmitted between domestic cats even though infected cats may not show any symptoms, according to a research team working in the Japanese capital and Wisconsin.Researchers from the University of Tokyo and University of Wisconsin-Madison published the findings online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine

Professor of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine Yoshihiro Kawaoka led the study, in which researchers administered to three cats SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a human patient. The following day, the researchers swabbed the nasal passages of the cats and were able to detect the virus in two of the animals. Within three days, they detected the virus in all of the cats.

In the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists administered the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, isolated from a human patient to three cats, and monitored the felines in the lab.The researchers, including those from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, swabbed the nasal passages of the cats, and were able to detect the virus in two of the animals.

According to the UW-Madison, Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka and his team determined this by taking COVID-19 from an infected person and exposing three cats. Within three days, they found coronavirus in all of them. Then, researchers put unexposed cats in each of those cats’ cages.

Jim Kossin, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin, published a study in 2008 indicating the Atlantic hurricane season has grown longer because of the warming of the ocean. And the flurry of May storms over the past decade would only seem to bolster that study’s finding.

One of the fewer than 20 doctors who will be making federal vaccine recommendations is in Madison, and he said it won’t be easy. The lab is like a second home to University of Wisconsin Medical School Associate Dean Jonathan Temte, who has decades of experience developing vaccines for viruses.

How much are we moving? Where are we going? Before COVID-19 arrived in Wisconsin, UW-Madison Assistant Geography Professor Song Gao was exploring those questions.

Similarly, Bharat Biotech has partnered with the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the US-based company FluGen to develop a vaccine, Coro-Flu.

Many Floridians appear to have reached a similar conclusion. Analysis of cellphone location data by companies like Descartes Labs Inc. and SafeGraph Inc. shows that residents’ daily mobility began dropping sharply after March 15, as it did in other parts of the U.S. By the following week, it had declined more than 50% statewide from an established baseline, according to a compilation of such data by a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In Miami-Dade and Broward counties, it had decreased more than 80%.

By using tests from infected patients, UW-Madison Professor Dr. Thomas Friedrich is tracking the genetic sequences of the coronavirus, which provides scientists with a better understanding of the virus.

Those theories also found support in Harlow’s monumental research with baby monkeys in a University of Wisconsin laboratory.

Most Wisconsinites have complied with social distancing, despite protests in Madison last week.

Thomas Friedrich, professor of pathobiological sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, and his team at UW-Madison are tracking how the coronavirus changes, ever so slightly, as it moves from person to person.

A group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used data from multiple vendors to estimate the impact of in-person voting on movement patterns during Wisconsin’s election on April 7.

CoroFlu, being developed under an international collaboration, is built on the backbone of FluGen’s flu vaccine candidate known as M2SR. Based on an invention by the University of Wisconsin-Madison virologists and FluGen co-founders Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann, M2SR is a self-limiting version of the influenza virus that induces an immune response against the flu.

Treatment reserved for patients life-threateningly ill, severe symptoms.

Treatments involve application of mass spectrometry techniques.

The study was published by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) on April 22 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Data is given to local public health officials to help decide personal protective equipment allocation.

They developed pneumonia-like symptoms but no serious fever. Virologist David O’Connor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his team tried to simulate an illness comparable to that of a severely ill human, according to Nature.

Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad had announced a partnership with the University of Wisconsin Madison and US-based firm FluGen for the manufacture of almost 300 million doses of vaccine for global distribution.

In Hyderabad, Bharat Biotech is collaborating with virologists at the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison and vaccine company FluGen on a “unique intranasal vaccine” called CoroFlu.

Early results from the research indicate the speed of viral transmission has slowed since Gov. Tony Evers issued the first Safer at Home order on March 25. UW-Madison said this shows, in the absence of other options, social/physical distancing is necessary to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

In fact, DHS data shows that the number of infections has been rising by about 150 to 190 cases per day, doubling about every two weeks, according to calculations posted by professor Brian Yandell, interim director of the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As of Monday afternoon, DHS reported 4,449 people with positive tests for the infection, including 230 people who have died.

“People have been studying the solar wind since its discovery in 1959, but there are many important properties of this plasma which are still not well understood,” says physicist Stas Boldyrev from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

n a 2013 observational study of the large-scale structure of the universe, University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomers Amy Barger and Ryan Keenan showed that our galaxy, in the context of the large-scale structure of the universe, resides in an enormous void—a region of space containing far fewer galaxies, stars and planets than expected. The structure of the cosmos is Swiss cheese-like in the sense that it is composed of “normal matter” in the form of voids and filaments.