Category: Research

LONG BEFORE THE STALAGMITES SAT on Ian Orland’s desk in Madison, Wisconsin, they jutted up from the floor the Soreq Cave in Israel’s Judean Hills, 18 miles west of Jerusalem. There, in the dripping darkness, the mounds of calcite were standing witness to the world outside.

Madison and Dane County officials say the area is in a housing crisis. Home values and median rent in Madison have been on the rise for years, according to a city report from August. And a University of Wisconsin-Madison study found about a quarter of all people in Dane County spend more than half their income on rent.

“Wearable devices that collect data continuously are disrupting healthcare in a positive way,” Joshua Coon, a professor of biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Digital Trends.

University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center caught video of the meteor, too, flying over Lake Mendota.

On analyzing samples taken from the two children, the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka found that the H3N2 strain harbored a new kind of drug-resistant mutation that is capable of passing between individuals and just as capable of causing illness as the non-mutated strain.

A camera on the roof of the Atmospheric & Oceanic Space Sciences building at the University of Wisconsin caught what appears to be a meteor on Saturday.

Fair Play was developed by a group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to let faculty mentors experience the academic world through the eyes of a virtual black graduate student.

Benjamin Martin, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered this burst of speed when he set Atlantic sand fiddler crabs on a sand-and-mud track and chased them around with his index finger, measuring the speeds at which they sprinted to the finish line.

There are large geographic divides in the US public’s trust of science, with rural residents being more sceptical than those from cities and the suburbs, according to new analysis by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Researchers hope to inspire preventative measures with study.

Breaking Addiction to Tobacco for Health 2, or BREATH 2, will do this by comparing current treatments to help people quit in clinic.

Carried out by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, the new study looked at 26 smokers who were trying to kick the habit and analysed their stool samples at the start of the study and then again two weeks and 12 weeks later.

And sure, Botox is largely considered safe — but new research from the University of Wisconsin presents “clear evidence that [botulinum] toxin is moving between neurons in a lab dish.”

On Friday and Saturday, RERIC hosted 19 teachers from the state’s rural districts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the event’s third year.

UW-Madison’s national research ranking fell to eighth in the country in the latest figures by the National Science Foundation.

“Some people think we’re crazy,” said Coon Lab staff scientist Ian Miller. “But I think we’re on to something.”

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research are looking at whether the toilet might have the ability to monitor and improve health.

If it calls to mind some of the worst excesses of the Internet of Things — catalogued, perhaps rather aptly, by the “InternetOfShit” Twitter accounts — fear not. The team of metabolism scientists, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research envision, claim that analyzing urine samples could aid care patients and ensure they’re getting proper medical treatment. Their findings were published this week in the journal Nature Digital Medicine.

UW-Madison scientists say ‘smart’ toilets could have the ability to change our health – for the better.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Digital Medicine, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research are working to put the tremendous range of metabolic health information contained in urine to work for personalised medicine.

Scientists from University of Wisconsin-Madison are designing a WC that picks up on warning signs in a user’s urine.

The scientists – from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research – designed the toilet to include a portable mass spectrometer, which can recognise individuals and process their urine samples.

The so-called “injectrode” technology is being developed by biomedical engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the heart of their system is a liquid silicone that’s similar to surgical glue, and which contains metal nanoparticles to make it electrically conductive.

Jonathan Patz worked for Congress and climate panel on climate change research.

Espionage, corruption and deceit. We don’t typically associate these words with science, but their use is becoming more common as policymakers and scientists debate how to best protect taxpayer-funded research from foreign influence. The heart of this discussion lies in finding the balance between defending science and preserving international collaboration.

To avoid the problems associated with subjective human application of the Dvorak technique, a computer-automated version of the method calibrated using hurricane hunter data, called the Advanced Dvorak method, was developed beginning in 1998 by a team of scientists led by Chris Velden and Timothy Olander of the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS).

One of those researchers is Bruce Klein, a physician and professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and chief of the pediatric infectious disease division at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Klein’s research includes identifying the molecules within various fungi that elicit an immune response.

Borman and his team looked at more 1,300 sixth-graders at all 11 middle schools in Madison and found one of the main struggles for those students was a need to fit in.

Monkeys’ skulls drilled into and injected with the ADHD drug Ritalin at Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Some of the drop may be due to a stricter voter ID law, signed into law by former Republican governor Scott Walker, that researchers at the University of Wisconsin founddeterred about 17,000 eligible voters in Milwaukee County and Dane County, which contains Madison. And activists here warn the party has been too quick to take Milwaukee’s black voters for granted.

Researcher says CRISPR gene editing techniques may fix antibiotic resistance issues.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds is testing out a curriculum aimed at teaching kindness to children.

The collaboration includes the UW-Madison transportation operations and safety laboratory.

Scientists at UW-Madison, the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources found the virus while searching for the cause of Wisconsin River Eagle Syndrome.

The Wisconsin Science Festival started Thursday throughout multiple counties in Wisconsin, bringing in more than 1,000 volunteer scientists to share their research.