Letter to the editor: The State Journal recently published several articles and an editorial asserting that UW-Madison is the epicenter of the discovery of stem cells and their utility in medicine. This representation is far from the truth, and several laboratories worldwide have been active in stem-cell research for many years prior to UW-Madison’s culture of embryonic stem cells in 1998.
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin opened his lunchbox. Inside, he had three aluminum tubes, two filled with pureed meat and one with chocolate sauce. A peculiar lunch, indeed, but for Gagarin it was a peculiar day. He was in the middle of the first human spaceflight, and his less-than exciting spread was the first meal consumed in space.
Hilary Dugan is researching rising salt levels that are showing up in water across much of the U.S.
Noted: The Tropical Cyclone Research Group at the UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center ended up in the middle of the heartland because of the groundbreaking work of atmospheric science professor Verner Suomi, who is widely credited with developing imaging technologies that spawned modern weather satellites in the 1960s and ’70s.
Noted: Sleep “cleans up” the brain. When you sleep, your brain removes information you don’t need and consolidates what you learned that day. This makes room for new learning. After all, do you really need to remember what socks you wore, the joke you heard during first period, or what you ate for breakfast? Neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin found that many of our synapses shrink at night as the brain weeds out or “forgets” information that it no longer needs. And it’s not just memories that need to be cleaned up. According to the National Institutes of Health, sleep also flushes out toxins that accumulate during the day.
A team at UW-Madison has recently developed a wound-dressing that could speed up the healing process of injuries, both temporary and chronic.
Quoted: “It would be really interesting to dissect the spiders [to see if there] was some kind of identifiable gland or something like that,” says Laura Hernandez of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who studies lactation
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a bandage that harnesses a body’s own energy to speed up wound healing through gentle electrical pulses.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the patent-licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was ordered to pay $32 million to Washington University in St. Louis after a judge ruled that UW Madison violated a royalties contract between the two universities, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Mature, adult oligodendrocytes can reacquire their ability to produce myelin to replace the ones lost in diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS) without undergoing a stem cell-like state, a new study shows.
UW-Madison’s Discovery To Product program was launched in 2013 asking the still vital question: What could be done to bring the great breakthroughs produced by the nation’s sixth largest research university to the broader public?
The Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center is now funded by the UW, with funding committed for the next four years. Services offered include plant transformation and editing, helping both private and public entities that need to insert traits into plants and need genetic plant research conducted.
Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University along with Jenny Liu at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Daniel Wegner of Harvard University set out to find what having constant access to information did to our capacity to retain information.
Quoted: Law professor and bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a member of the summit organizing committee, thinks that’s the right emphasis. “We continue to have a public fascination with the least likely applications” of CRISPR, she said: “Germline editing, which will be the most complicated use to evaluate in terms of its risks and benefits, and enhancement” — using CRISPR not to treat a disease but to improve someone’s appearance, strength, or other traits. People, she added, put these applications together — germline editing for enhancement, a.k.a. “designer babies” — “and we’re off to the races.”
Milwaukee’s discriminatory housing policies from the 1940 through the 1970s are still largely defining residential patterns in the city, according to the report, which used research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chris Kucharik, agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said frequent, heavy rains will make it more difficult for farmers to control runoff.
The team’s research, led by professor Ian Duncan, which has been ongoing for nearly eight years, aims to repair the central nervous system in people with myelin disorders, particularly targeting MS.
UW-Madison remained in the top 10 among U.S. universities in spending on research and development, according to an annual survey from the National Science Foundation.
My colleagues Joann Peck and Scott Swain and I conducted several studies to find out.
“I’d encourage [everyone] to please take your minds as seriously as you take your teeth. And nurture qualities like kindness because it will improve your well-being,” said Dr. Davidson, the founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Recently released results from a University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health study suggest athletic trainer availability in high schools can be critical to managing injuries such as concussions.
According to statistics from researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and elsewhere, as of 2010, more than 30 percent of California’s housing stock was in the WUI.
She returned to school to study veterinary oncology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and followed that with a doctorate in immunology from Harvard.
One of many stories from a special section marking the 20th anniversary of stem cell discovery.
Column by Chancellor Blank and Brad Schwartz, CEO of the Morgridge Institute for Research, for the “Stem Cells @20: Celebrating Historic Discovery series.
UW-Madison researchers will work with the association, USDA experts, and growers to develop the crop. “We can continue to work together to push the growers and advance an industry for the next generation of producers,” said Jed Colquhoun, a researcher with the UW-Madison horticulture department.
Even as the risk of extreme wildfires rises, more people are choosing to live in harm’s way. The number of homes across the country built in WUI areas increased by 41 percent between 1990 and 2010, according to U.S. Forest Service research headed by the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s SILVIS Lab. While living away from bustling cities and closer to undeveloped landscapes has an appeal for many homeowners, it carries an inherent set of risks.
The partnership also will provide an opportunity for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW-Carbone Cancer Center to engage in research surrounding the health benefits of ginseng, according to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Crave credits the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison for assisting him in reaching his goal. The center provides educational programs and short courses to cheese makers and provide them with experience in working with several varieties of cheese.
By the end of the century, “the weather like the summer of ’88 will likely be there all the time rather than being the very rare exception,” said Monica G. Turner of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A total of just over 1,240 square miles would burn that year — more than a third of the park — and although news reports at the time marked Yellowstone as destroyed, that hasn’t been the case. In the 30 years since, Turner, now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has amassed a considerable amount of data and scores of papers.
The number of homes across the country built in WUI areas increased by 41 percent between 1990 and 2010, according to US Forest Service research headed by the University of Wisconsin Madison’s SILVIS Lab. While living away from bustling cities and closer to undeveloped landscapes has an appeal for many homeowners, it carries an inherent set of risks.
A 2011 study by the Applied Population Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found the number of men hunting in the state could drop to 400,000 or fewer by 2030.
The experts included Dan Vimont, the director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research.
Noted: The genesis of the Kubly Foundation, in its current form, began at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1950s when four undergrad students began a lifelong friendship — Michael Kubly and his wife-to-be Billie Wenger, and Michael Schmitz and his wife-to-be Jeanne Berry.
Juli Plant Grainer professor of economics Noah Williams released the report right before the midterm elections when Oneida County was set to vote on a non-binding referendum allowing “the lease of county lands … for the purposes of metallic mineral exploration, prospecting, bulk sampling and mining.”
The human body is an amazing and adaptable machine. The next time you head for the mountains, bring plenty of sun block and be prepared for some strenuous hikes and heavy breathing.For Field Notes, this is Scott Bowe from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Kemp Natural Resources Station.
University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer, author of “The Politics of Resentment,” and a media analytics team from Cortico, a nonprofit organization that uses artificial intelligence to assist journalists tell stories, and Massachusets Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Social Machines will be testing the new platform, called the Local Voices Network, in Madison between Jan. 2 and April 2.
Experts note that the current length was established in 1965 based on the formation dates of 97% of tropical cyclone activity in the basin. However, research published in Geophysical Research Letters by Jim Kossin at the University of Wisconsin found that warming sea surface temperatures were leading to more “pre” and “post” season storms.
RedeeFlu’s mechanism for achieving broad effectiveness is that, like other LAIVs, it stimulates both antibody and T-cell responses, but RedeeFlu does those things better than other LAIVs, according to FluGen cofounder Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who holds joint appointments at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Tokyo.
The researchers, University of Wisconsin’s Matthew J. Wiswall and Arizona State’s Basit Zafar, suggest that gender differences in preferences explain a quarter of the early-career wage gap.
“Since then, we’ve already grown by 950 students and projections by UW-Madison’s Applied Population Lab say we may grow about as many as 2,000 more students over the next decade,” Hibner said.
In new research appearing in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, Hao Yan and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in China describe a new method for treating and preventing AKI.
Diana Hess, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, found through her research that talking about political and social issues with people who hold opposing views can foster political tolerance, which can lead to better policy decisions in the future.
In a 2017 study published in the journal Psychological Science, psychologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reported that happiness levels in American adults are a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease, and subjects who felt happier saw improved health markers in their daily lives.
Flegle, desperate to keep Star alive and healthy, considered dialysis and a kidney transplant — which is rare for dogs. A surgeon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison agreed to consider an organ transplant, but only if there was a familial match.
Robert Golden, dean of the UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health for the past dozen years, leaned into the question as if he wanted no doubt to exist on where he stood. We were in his office in a campus building located a stone’s throw away from University Hospital.
Thanks to scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Minnesota, we now have grapevines that can survive the Midwest’s long winters and produce ripe fruit before the first frost.
So for the new study, which was published in September in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Iowa State University and other institutions set out to examine different ways to inspire people to keep moving as a Midwestern winter approached.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison report that woodland hawks, a species that suffered greatly at the hands of pollution, habitat loss, and hunting by humans, are making a comeback — and they’re doing it in the big city.
New collaborating partners will aid UW Discovery Farms in research efforts. The new partners will assist in sample collection, area outreach and education.
The scientists from the university of Wisconsin-Madison say that the wide availability of bird feeders in cities is allowing songbirds to thrive, and birds of prey are paying attention.
“If you accept the arguments about water and life on Mars, then why shouldn’t we include Venus in that?” Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, told Eos. “Venus had liquid water. It could have had the chance to evolve or sustain life that could be living in the habitable clouds.”
On 6 November 1998, the world woke to news of an astonishing discovery. James Thomson and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had generated stem cells from human embryos. Unlike other types of stem cells, these were ‘pluripotent’ – meaning they had the potential to generate any type of body tissue if given the right signals.
Noted: The district said that increasing enrollment over the last eight years means district schools are getting close to the district’s capacity of 2,924 students, according to a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Applied Populations Laboratory.
A recently released study by the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison estimated a metallic mine in the county would create up to 700 jobs, as well as an additional 1,274 jobs during construction over two years.
Kristen Pickett, an assistant professor of occupational therapy in UW’s kineseology department, brought the class to Madison four years ago after finding through her experience with Parkinson’s patients, they’re not always on board with exercise.
What if a simple blood test could determine if your child — as young as 18 months — has the developmental issues associated with autism spectrum disorder? That outcome could both speed up the diagnosis and treatment of an often-devastating childhood disease.
In a release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison announcing the study’s findings, Light, a sociology professor, said it’s important to look at data as the immigration debate continues.
Scientists in Dr. David Gamm’s lab at UW-Madison can coax stem cells to grow into three-dimensional retinas in a dish and show that the tissue responds to light.
