Sitting on a laboratory shelf on the third floor of the state-of-the-art Wisconsin Institute of Discovery building are a collection of small vials, each containing a primordial chemical soup. They are all a part of University of Wisconsin botany professor David Baum’s experiment that may change the way scientists study the origin of life.
A National Institutes of Health database tracking significant financial conflicts of interest involving federally funded researchers has been made public for the first time — and the University of Wisconsin — Madison has reported the most conflicts, by far.
Not everyone agrees. A 2017 survey at the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked 1,600 members of the general public about their attitudes toward gene editing. The results showed 65 percent of respondents think gene editing is acceptable for therapeutic purposes. But when it comes to whether scientists should use technology for genetic enhancement, only 26 percent agreed.
UW-Madison’s national research ranking, cemented for nearly 45 years as one of the top five in the country, has dropped in recent years, with the latest figures placing the university eighth among hundreds of institutions.
Believe it or not, these numbers actually represent progress. The CCBC, based at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, has been compiling these statistics since 1985, and the numbers have slowly but steadily improved.
Most of the researchers who reported conflicts of interest work in academia. The University of Wisconsin-Madison filed 1,015 conflict disclosures for its researchers since 2012, the most of any institution. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was second with 358 disclosures, and the University of California, Los Angeles, was next with 294.
The city of Madison is teaming up with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to identify the problems that come with climate change and ways to adapt to them.
Bullying and cyberbullying on social media can be a significant risk factor for depression, substance abuse and even suicide.
As the Madison region anticipates warmer temperatures and heavier rains in the future, the city and UW-Madison are partnering in a new effort to identify and proactively plan for the risks that climate change poses for infrastructure and operations.
Environmental health scientist Sean Scott of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues found that lead levels in bones taken from three cemeteries in Londinium may be more than 70 times higher than those in remains from pre-Roman Iron Age Britain.
The city will be working with the UW’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the Wisconsin Institute on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) and UW-Extension Dane County on the project.
Trust in science remained high even on controversial issues like climate change.
“The molecules are much larger than an antisense RNA,” says Krishanu Saha, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison. “The Cas9 enzyme is a pretty large protein, and then it’s complexed with a guide RNA.”
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin are developing a variety of corn that can draw nitrogen from the air rather than from the soil. This new corn from natural crosses could one day reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and create an agricultural and environmental revolution, reportsLa semaine verte. Microbiologist Jean-Michel Ané takes us to the experimental fields at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where rare specimens of ancient corn grow.
UW–Madison agronomy and bacteriology professor Jean-Michel Ané and his partners on campus are growing a strain of corn that can acquire its own nitrogen from the air in partnership with bacteria. A report from La semaine verte.
Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are envisioning a toilet that can analyze urine for indicators of disease (such as blood, protein, or metabolites), connect to the internet, and send the information to your phone or your doctor.
Writing in the journal Archaeometry, lead author Sean Scott of the University of Wisconsin-Madison along with an international team composed of Martin Shafer, Kate Smith, Joel Overdier, Barry Cunliffe, Thomas Stafford, and Philip Farrell detail their novel method for identifying lead (Pb) levels from ancient skeletons and the results they obtained.
According to University of Wisconsin, Madison, archaeologist Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, the mounds grew organically over the centuries as people kept building platforms and walls for their houses.
Now UW-Madison researchers hope to add to the growing field of personalized medicine by developing a device based on a common activity — urination.
One morning in mid-September, Jed Colquhoun, an expert in fruit and vegetable production systems, hopped on the phone to discuss the state of cranberries and climate change in the state of Wisconsin, our country’s most bountiful producer of that tart indigenous berry.
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.
However, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found worrying evidence that, in the process of banishing the virus, the drug may cause it to mutate while it is still infectious, and that drug-resistant mutation can be passed on to others.
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 new study by UW-Madison researchers says Wisconsin needs to change its approach to walleye management to halt decades of “hidden overharvest.”
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.
Noted: Hiring immigrants caught on among Wisconsin dairy farms in the late 1990s and early 2000s, according to University of Wisconsin research.
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.”
About 4,000 smokers in Wisconsin will be asked to quit using a pill or patches and lozenges — or to consider quitting later — in a UW-Madison study supported by a new $14 million federal grant.
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.
“Over and over again, scientists are at the top of trustworthy professions,” said Dominque Brossard, a professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior author of the report, in a statement.
In a US-based study spanning over decades, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that the public’s trust in scientists still remains strong. The findings appeared in the journal Public Opinion Quarterly.
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.
“Between 2008 and 2015, the prices for the most commonly used drugs increased 164 percent,” he said during a talk Friday at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty. “I think this leads to unsustainable spending.”
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.
Quoted: “Psychedelics produce profound experiences,” said Chuck Raison, a professor at the School of Human Ecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Psychedelics have an antidepressant effect. They do both at the same time, so they get mythically linked, because the human brain works like that. It sees causation where there’s association.”
They followed members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a periodic survey of a sample of the state’s high school graduates that began in 1957. From 2004, the survey included data on whether participants had given money to charity or others, volunteered, cared for someone other than a spouse or given substantial time and energy in support of family or friends.
Newly published data from University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers show that despite reductions in mercury emissions in the United States, levels of the toxin found in Great Lakes trout have not declined at the same rate.
Nominally an environmental and social history of the Galápagos Islands, Prof. Elizabeth Hennessy lays bare the many intertwined issues that confront us as we attempt conservation efforts in complex situations, while faced with a sweeping ecological crisis.
Our de facto solution to housing affordability has been forcing people to move farther and farther away from cities, so they commute longer, make traffic worse and increase the population of fire-prone areas. (Volker Radloff research.)
