Consequently, a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor Noah Williams and Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty research director Dr. Will Flanders shows how expanding Medicaid could result in the crowding-out of private insurers and the sky-rocketing of private-sector health care costs to nearly $600 million per year, even after the savings to the state.
New work by two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers provides crucial insight into a major medical mystery: how a protein that normally protects cells from tumors is induced to abandon its mission.
UW-Madison researchers have discovered one way a gene that usually protects against tumors can, when mutated, spur cancers of the breast, ovaries, lung and bladder.
Thirteen percent of children in the U.S. are living in families with incomes below the poverty line. Beyond what this ends up costing the country — estimated to range between $800 billion and $1.1 trillion annually — this has implications for children’s health and development. We talk with an economist about his plan to cut child poverty in half over ten years.
Guest: Timothy Smeeding
The study, released Tuesday, is a collaborative effort between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It uses the most recent available data from a range of sources, much coming from last year.
Randy Shaver, a UW-Madison professor in the Department of Dairy Science and Extension dairy nutritionist, will be honored as the Industry Person of the Year.
Adrian Treves is an expert on the coexistence and conflicts between humans and wildlife, and especially carnivores like wolves, bears and big cats. He is a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he founded the Carnivore Coexistence Lab. EmilyClare Baker is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon. Her doctoral research at the University of Wisconsin helped reveal the genes that make lager yeast love cold and sugar.
Polar Radiant Energy in the Far Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE) from University of Wisconsin-Madison. This mission is composed of two satellites that will monitor far-infrared radiation and determine its role in Arctic warming, sea ice loss, ice sheet melt and sea level rise.
Noted: The study — released last month by Republican lawmakers at a news conference at the state Capitol — was by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the Center for Research On the Wisconsin Economy, or CROWE, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In late August, UW-Madison announced a partnership with Foxconn Technology Group that Chancellor Rebecca Blank said would be the largest research partnership in the university’s history. But more than six months later, it’s hard to tell what kind of progress has been made on the deal.
Recent reports about the company’s shifting plans, including a Foxconn executive acknowledging that the bulk of jobs at the Racine County facility will be for research and engineering rather than blue-collar manufacturing, are seen by some as more potential job opportunities for college graduates. Foxhounds interpreted the news differently, seeing the university as increasingly important to Foxconn’s bottom line and recognizing an opportunity to apply pressure on the partnership.
He is among hundreds of farmers who were in Madison this week for the annual business conference of the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin.
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy – or COWS – has concluded that Wisconsin could generate jobs and improve public health by transitioning its energy system away from fossil fuels.
Chin Wu, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, headed a team that studied what caused the July 4, 2003 events that spurred seven drownings on Lake Michigan.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison laboratory is set to resume experiments that could build the foundation of an early warning system for flu pandemics.
UW professor of economics and public affairs Timothy Smeeding is one of the researchers who worked on the congressionally-mandated study.
Larson is an assistant professor in the Biological Systems Engineering Department at UW-Madison and a biowaste specialist with UW-Extension. She performs research and extension/outreach applications of biowaste management including handling, treatment and processing of biological waste streams, including manure.
Horseshoe crabs have been crawling on our planet for nearly half a billion years, yet for all the brains we evolved in our measly half-million-year existence, we never did figure out what they actually are. Now a genetic study published this weekend in the journal of Systematic Biology finds evidence for the theory first postulated in the year 1881: the horseshoe crab is not a crab after all. It is a sister group to Ricinulei, the hooded tick spider.
“The insects are doing the searching for us,” added co-author of the study, Cameron Currie, a bacteriologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gov. Tony Evers said he is seeking to change the state’s attitude toward science through proposed spending increases for higher education in his state budget, which provides University of Wisconsin System campuses with $150 million more in funding.
According to the report, one of the labs at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will resume testing in a few weeks after researchers received a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland.
Some studies show that voter ID laws favored by Republicans have a deterrent effect, especially on minority voters, who tend to vote for Democrats. Wisconsin enacted a voter ID law before the 2016 election. A study from the University of Wisconsin found that the new requirements deterred thousands of eligible voters in two counties from casting ballots.
He has been developing a competing theory in collaboration with its originator, the neuroscientist Giulio Tononi of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The Supreme Court’s ruling in 2013 had no bearing on Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin-Madison study she relied on for her 40,000 estimate says its findings from two counties should not be extrapolated to form statewide conclusions. Her spokesman did not cite any study for the 80,000 estimate. Voter registration in Georgia did not decline from 2012 to 2016.”
Several imaging agents have been developed to monitor and examine changes in PR levels, and researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health now studied if the 18F-fluorofuranylnorprogesterone (18F-FFNP) imaging agent could be used for that purpose.
Three of Wisconsin’s better-known flu scientists over the past half-century are Bernard Easterday, Christopher Olsen and Yoshihiro Kawaoka, all of whom are affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. They spoke about their work at an Oct. 3, 2018 lecture for the Wednesday Nite @ the Lab series on the UW-Madison campus, recorded for Wisconsin Public Television’s University Place.
The work by campus scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka involves modifying bird flu viruses such as H5N1 so they can spread among ferrets, an animal model for studying the flu in humans.
“It’s really just a demonstration project. Anyone can come and ride,” said Jon Riehl, a transportation systems engineer with the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory.
Monarch butterflies are getting ready for a big journey north to Wisconsin. We’ll talk with UW–Madison Arboretum director Karen Oberhauser about the life cycles of monarchs and why it matters to us. We also learn what we can do to help restore their habitat.
When is a farm not just a farm?
Monica M. White’s new, impressively researched book Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (University of North Carolina Press, $28) highlights historical examples of black farmers using agricultural cooperatives “as a space and place to practice freedom.” And White explains how similar strategies are helping today’s underserved communities pool resources and alleviate poverty.
Quoted: One major factor is that fewer teens are having babies. Teen births have dropped 60 percent over a decade, said David Egan-Robertson, of the UW-Madison Applied Population Laboratory.
“And in 2017, for the first time, teen births fell below 4 percent of total births,” he said. “So that’s quite a significant change. It’s been a very long-term process, but that’s a noticeable change in that age group.
Quoted: “This is a fantastic discovery because the torsion measured in spider dragline silk is huge, a full circle every millimeter or so of length,” says Pupa Gilbert, a professor of physics, chemistry, and materials science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who was not involved in this work.
Keep in mind, though, that psychology plays an important role. A University of Wisconsin study found that people were in a better mood when they picked their own intensity level instead of a prescribed moderate-effort workout, even though their endocannabinoid levels were higher after the latter.
One lab was led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and the other by Ron Fouchier, at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam.
One major factor in the decrease in births is that fewer teens are having babies. David Egan-Robertson is with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory. He says teen births have dropped 60 percent over a decade.
The new research grew out of an earlier project to see what wild black bears across Colorado were eating, says study coauthor Jonathan Pauli, a community ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
When older adults are hospitalized, they often don’t walk much because nurses fear falls and administrators fear financial penalties related to falls, according to Barbara King, an associate professor at UW-Madison’s School of Nursing.
David Egan-Robertson is with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory. He says teen births have dropped 60 percent over a decade.
“Generally, the idea is to get the people who are more junior and who are doing the research, to be thinking about ethical issues — and to have some fun with it,” said Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and bioethics at the UW-Madison and the Morgridge Bioethics Program lead.
Along I-55 heading from Illinois into Missouri, just before St. Louis’s iconic Gateway Arch becomes visible, another monument rises into view—Cahokia Mounds, the remnants of the largest pre-Hispanic settlement north of the Mexican border.
Horseshoe crabs have never quite fit in with the rest of the ocean’s animals. Considered living fossils, their circular bodies and sharp tails are often presented as frightening. But horseshoe crabs aren’t scary, they’re just misunderstood. A new scientific study has created a definitive family tree for horseshoe crabs, showing that they’re best classified as arachnids.
Cahokia was an agrarian Native American community that rose to prominence around 1100 AD as the largest settlement north of Mexico prior to the colonial occupation of the Americas.
There is no evidence of race or gender bias in the initial peer review of research grant proposals submitted to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to a new analysis from a team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.1 The overall impact scores of white male principal investigators (PIs) applying for grants were not significantly different to those of female or ethnic minority PIs. This pattern held true regardless of grant proposal quality or scientific topic area.
We found that the strongest driver of these telomere patterns across the state of Colorado were not these individual characteristics, it was the environmental characteristics,” said Jonathan Pauli, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher involved in the study.
Every year, the University of Wisconsin Insect Diagnostic Lab receives thousands of samples and reports from around the state and region, providing a unique perspective into insect and other arthropod trends in Wisconsin and beyond.
“In the ancient world, there were other places people could have moved that were more resource-rich,” says Sissel Schroeder, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and co-author of the study. “In the modern world, we’re experiencing the same pressures but it’s becoming more difficult to find resource-rich areas that aren’t already occupied by humans.”
Those recommendations are part of a policy paper by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Last year, White and a team of collaborators—including his former advisor Lora Stevens, professor of paleoclimatology and paleolimnology at California State University, Long Beach, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Anthropology Sissel Schroeder—showed they could detect signatures of human poop in lake core sediments collected from Horseshoe Lake, not far from Cahokia’s famous mounds.
“When we see correlations with climate, some archaeologists don’t think climate has anything to do with it, but it’s difficult to sustain that argument when the evidence of significant changes in the climate show people are facing new challenges,” said Professor Sissel Schroeder, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The most recent peak was in 2007, right before the Great Recession, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison demographer, and births have dropped 11 percent since then. Births across the U.S. have also decreased, but not as much.
“Cultures can be very resilient in face of climate change but resilience doesn’t necessarily mean there is no change,” said study co-author Sissel Schroeder, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in a statement. “There can be cultural reorganization or decisions to relocate or migrate. We may see similar pressures today but fewer options to move.”
Last year, White and a team of collaborators — including his former advisor Lora Stevens, professor of paleoclimatology and paleolimnology at California State University, Long Beach, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Anthropology Sissel Schroeder — showed they could detect signatures of human poop in lake core sediments collected from Horseshoe Lake, not far from Cahokia’s famous mounds.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison sequenced the genes of two Pseudomonas bacteria to get the flavoprotein enzymes to break down TNT.
Last year, White and a team of collaborators — including his former advisor Lora Stevens, professor of paleoclimatology and paleolimnology at California State University, Long Beach, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Anthropology Sissel Schroeder — showed they could detect signatures of human poop in lake core sediments collected from Horseshoe Lake, not far from Cahokia’s famous mounds.
Based on research from the lab of UW-Madison biomedical engineering professor Bill Murphy, Dianomi says it has devised a way to make medications that attack the source of pain — rather than the pain alone — and are more effective and longer lasting than current treatments.
It is all evidence, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Dr Jonathan Pauli, of “a new reality for some ecosystems”, as they are being re-engineered by humans, and by what we grow, raise and throw away.
It is one of the clearest cases yet found, the researchers suggest, of the transfer of genes from the bacterial domain to organisms such as fungi: in essence, the arcing over of one branch on the tree of life to donate genetic material to an altogether separate one.The findings of the study, which involved collaborators from North America, The Netherlands and China and was led by Jacek Kominek and Drew Doering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, are reported in the journal Cell.
Noted: A study by the Wisconsin School of Business suggests that when you regularly complete clear-cut tasks, it starts to impact your ability to creatively problem solve.
Noted: Craig, Kapenga and Stroebel were at Tuesday’s news conference to tout a study by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy.
The findings of the study, which involved collaborators from North America, The Netherlands and China and was led by Jacek Kominek and Drew Doering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, are reported in the journal Cell.
