Category: Research

$6.4 million USDA grant with matching funds, innovative genetic research, aid farmers in creating better quality products.

But no animal model is perfect. “There’s going to be a need not just for one animal model, but multiple,” says David O’Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Monkeys and mice tell researchers different things about infection, shedding light on factors such as the role of the immune system or how the virus spreads. “We can try to learn as much as possible as quickly as possible and integrate that with the emerging volume of data from the clinic,” says O’Connor.

Increasingly, radium in public water supplies has become a notable element for other municipalities in suburban Milwaukee — and much of the state, new research from a Wisconsin study has found.

One ironic twist is that the levels in Waukesha, a community which was forced to find a solution to meet federally mandated radium limits, may have actually improved, albeit marginally, in recent years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests.

Researchers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and others analyzed groundwater data collected by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources from 2000 to 2018. They found radium levels were trending upward in wells drawing from a regional aquifer underlying the southern two-thirds of the state. The findings were published in a American Water Works Association journal.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created LRRK2 mutants in both embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells (ESCs and iPSCs, respectively). They allowed these cells to grow into mature neurons, to compare the growth characteristics of all cells.

As debate rages on about just how far is too far, UW balances research, public opinion, policy.

“We know now how to insert a single mutation, a point mutation, into the marmoset stem cell,” says Marina Emborg, professor of medical physics and leader of University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists who conducted the study. “This is an exquisite model of Parkinson’s. For testing therapies, this is the perfect platform.”

There’s also injury from electrocution when there are code violations,” said Dr. Geoffrey Swain, a retired family physician who worked on the research report funded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and the Joseph and Vera Zilber Charitable Foundation.

Stephanie Diem, an associate professor in the department of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has worked on nuclear fusion for more than two decades since she came to the UW as a freshman.

In the upcoming days, Israelis will probably be barraged with divisive campaign rhetoric, which our research suggests increases partisan polarization. However, if the election delivers another divided result, right- and left-wing politicians may wish to overcome the deadlock and form a unity government. Doing so, politicians may be able to mitigate some of the animosity caused by recurring exposure to electoral competition over the past year. But the tone of the campaign suggests that this is unlikely.

Lotem Bassan-Nygate is a PhD student in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Twitter: @BassanNygate

Chagai M. Weiss is a PhD candidate in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a research affiliate of the Elections Research Center. Twitter: @chagai_weiss

A poll released Sunday by the University of Wisconsin—Madison Elections Research Center cast the race in a different light, showing all the Democratic candidates leading or tied with Trump in all three states, but most of them are within the margin of error. That survey’s sample of Wisconsin voters leaned Democratic by five points.

The ongoing need for this type of service has been highlighted by statistics. Data on books by and about people of color and from First/Native Nations published for children and teens compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison showed that in 2018, of 3,653 books received by CCBC, 405 were about Africans and African-Americans, 55 were about and First and Native Nations, 314 were about Asian Pacifics and Asian Pacific Americans and 249 were about Latinx people.

We talk with a UW-Madison professor about his effort to take the political pulse of three battleground states, including Wisconsin.

“For as long as you’re stimulating their brain, their behaviour… and their brain activity is that of a waking state,” said Dr Yuri Saalmann, University of Wisconsin–Madison psychology and neuroscience professor, in a prepared statement.

Built on decades of previous research, a team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison teased out a tiny chunk of brain tissue within the thalamus, a nub above the brain stem, as a critical part of NCC. As proof of concept, they gave it several bouts of electrical shocks, and restored awareness in unconscious monkeys under heavy anesthesia.

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.