Heavy drinking greatly increases the risk of some cancers, and even moderate drinking boosts the risk of breast and colon cancer, says a report by a national cancer doctor group whose lead author is a UW Health oncologist.
Consuming alcoholic beverages, even in moderation, may increase your risk of developing certain cancers, according to a new statement released by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Long Valley, California, witnessed a ‘super-eruption’ about 765,000 years ago. This caused a pool of molten rock to explode into the sky causing a devastating pre-historic firework show. The eruption caused 650 cubic kilometers of lava and ash to spew out, which released enough sulfur gas to blanket our planet and cool it.
About 765,000 years ago, a pool of molten rock exploded into the sky, forming the Long Valley Caldera in California – a valley in eastern California adjacent to Mammoth Mountain.
$19 million went toward Morgridge Institute for Research, the highest in WARF history
UW Carbone Cancer Center currently working on modifying cell pathways
Investigations of plant metabolism (at UW–Madison) reveal how an enzyme variant with reduced feedback sensitivity may allow plants to switch their pigment palettes.
MADISON, Wis. – A University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows improved balance and a decrease in falls among older adults who take yoga.
Noted: A coalition opposing restrictions on fetal tissue research called Cures for Tomorrow includes BioForward, representing the state’s bioscience industry, the Medical College of Wisconsin, UW-Madison, UW Health and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
The head of the University of Wisconsin medical school says passing a fetal tissue research ban would shut down ongoing potentially life-saving research.
Quoted: “I would say that algorithms and mathematical modeling are fairly pervasive and ubiquitous, from the time someone wakes up in the morning until the end of the day,” said Anthony Gitter, an assistant professor in the department of biostatistics and medical informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
More than 30,000 people are expected at exhibits across Wisconsin for the seventh annual Wisconsin Science Festival.
Most people aren’t able to say that they work with data from the South Pole, but Justin Vandenbroucke is the exception.
Vandenbroucke is an assistant professor in the physics department at UW-Madison, and specializes in high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. He works with data from the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory.
Alexandra Witze welcomes a history of IceCube, an ambitious neutrino observatory.
Most people aren’t able to say that they work with data from the South Pole, but Justin Vandenbroucke is the exception.
A recent article by Tamar Haspel argues that the local and organic food movement can’t fix our food system. If this movement were solely focused on “buy fresh, buy local” at farmers markets and upscale restaurants, we would agree. However, bigger changes are underway for sustainable agriculture. Farmers and others in the sustainable food movement pursue a broader vision of change in agriculture.
Sure, fertilizer, irrigation and weed control can make a baseball field look pretty. But there’s a more practical reason for thick, weed-free turf.
Despite the need for function, lots of use makes turf fields hard to maintain, said Soldat, an associate professor and soil scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With that in mind, he led a three-year grass study beginning in 2015 to determine the best lawn care approaches on sports fields at Racetrack Park in Stoughton.
Noted: Daniel Feiler, Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business’s assistant professor along with his co-authors Jordan Tong, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business and doctoral student Anastasia Ivantsova investigate this paradox in a recent study.
Jack Nitschke said going to class, outside can help in dealing with mental health issues.
Feeling especially stressed about your midterms? This is likely because your brain is used to these feelings.
“A dictionary is never done,” said George Goebel, the third and, it turns out, final editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, also known as DARE.
Noted: Health care providers can protect babies by testing women of childbearing age for hepatitis C and curing those with the infection, said the research team led by Theresa Watts, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing.
Noted: A second study, from the University of Wisconsin School of Business and economics researchers from two additional universities, focused on property values in Denver and found that homes near retail cannabis outlets — within just 0.1 miles — gained 8.4 percent more in value than houses just steps further away, from 0.1 to 0.25 miles. That big increase amounted to almost $27,000 for an average house.
Noted: A study from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison found property values in the immediate vicinity of Denver’s retail marijuana establishments showed an 8 percent increase since Amendment 64 took effect in January 2014.
Desde hace dos años la Unión Europea viene denunciando una estafa en la venta del atún: ciertos productores inescrupulosos, para hacerlo ver fresco y apetecible, lo pintan de rojo.
Central Times talks with a UW-Madison professor who led a three-year grass study using different lawn care approaches on sports fields at a Stoughton park.
Health care providers can protect babies by testing women of childbearing age for hepatitis C and curing those with the infection, said the research team led by Theresa Watts, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing.
This fall, UW-Madison began a four-year project to find out whether martens on the Apostle Islands are relatives of those that were introduced in the 1950s. It’s also possible the animals came from a group of martens that were reintroduced into northern Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, according to Jon Pauli, assistant professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison.
There’s a lot of buzz in some parts of the dairy industry — and among consumers — about A2 milk. A CBS News story recently highlighted the push toward A2 milk and how some people think it relieves them of dairy intolerance symptoms.
An influential legislator wants President Donald Trump’s administration and fellow Republicans to drop the notion of capping overhead costs on grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). And yesterday that lawmaker, Representative Tom Cole (R–OK), used his clout as chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that funds NIH to administer a dose of what he hopes will be preventive medicine.
Wisconsin lawmakers backing a set of bills that would ban research on aborted fetal tissue and regulate the disposition of fetal remains say they have the votes to pass them in the Assembly and they’re close in the Senate.
Noted: Plants modify tyrosine by adding other molecules to create an enormous array of useful substances. This is how morphine is made in the opium poppy, and mescaline in cactuses. Intrigued by this process, Hiroshi Maeda, a professor at University of Wisconsin and senior author on the paper, collaborated with beet experts to study how the plants make betalains from tyrosine.
27 News spoke with a member of the Badgerloop team at UW about the innovative project. The team is made up mainly of UW undergraduate engineering student.
Using UW-Madison’s resources, community programs are working to close those opportunity gaps, preparing students for success in college from a young age and supporting teachers.
“That’s the $64,000 question,” said University of Wisconsin veterinarian and Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory outreach coordinator Keith Paulsen. “Really what it shows us is that we don’t know enough about this disease and the argument that ‘This has been around forever and has never been a problem’ is really short-sighted. And this is new information that it could affect more than just one species and we need to know more.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison documents about primate research are public records and should be turned over to Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
A new version of the H7N9 avian influenza virus might be able to cause widespread infection and should be closely monitored, scientists say, although it currently doesn’t spread easily between people.
Public health officials have been worried about H7N9’s potential to eventually trigger a pandemic, or global outbreak.A new study could add to those concerns. Researchers at UW–Madison found that samples of H7N9 were easily transmitted among ferrets — an animal “model” that is considered the best proxy for human flu infection. And those infections were often lethal.
In a study published in Cell Host & Microbe, flu expert Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin and colleagues tested a version of the new H7N9 strain taken from a person who died from the infection last spring.They found that the virus replicated efficiently in mice, ferrets and non-human primates, and that it caused even more severe disease in mice and ferrets than a low pathogenic version of the same virus that does not cause illness in birds.
A new version of the H7N9 avian influenza virus might be able to cause widespread infection and should be closely monitored, scientists say, although it currently doesn’t spread easily between people. Researchers at UW–Madison isolated the virus from a fatal human case and tested it and two genetically modified versions in ferrets, which are susceptible to both human and bird flu viruses.
In one year, H7N9 influenza’s highly pathogenic (“high-path”) strains have caused as many human infections as the previous four epidemics put together. As of September 20, there have been 1,589 laboratory-confirmed cases, and 39 percent of those people have died. “It was a matter of time,” says the flu expert Yoshihiro Kawaoka, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It wasn’t surprising to see this change.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keeps a Most Wanted list for flu viruses. The agency evaluates every potentially dangerous strain, and gives them two scores out of 10—one reflecting how likely they are to trigger a pandemic, and another that measures how bad that pandemic would be. At the top of the list, with scores of 6.5 for emergence and 7.5 for impact, is H7N9.
KIINCE—shorthand for Kinetic Immersive Interfaces for Neuromuscular Coordination Enhancement—is a Madison-based corporation that has emerged from the research of Kreg Gruben, associate professor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison department of kinesiology.
A state appeals court says an animal rights group is entitled a University of Wisconsin System animal experimentation oversight committee’s meeting notes.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has awarded over $80 million to UW-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research for the 2017-2018 school year, so researchers can continue to “dream big.”
Anti-abortion advocates, and a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, clashed with University of Wisconsin medical school leaders Tuesday over a proposal that would end an arrangement allowing UW doctors to perform abortions and train students at Planned Parenthood.
A bill that would bar University of Wisconsin employees from performing or assisting with abortions under the scope of their employment would prevent the UW School of Medicine from training ob-gyn students to perform the procedure.
The students were selected to receive the federally funded Fulbright-Hays-Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award that will allow them to do research on three different continents for a year. The funds are provided from the U.S. Department of Education.
Marsha Mailick, vice chancellor for research and graduate education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will take a temporary leave of absence beginning Jan. 1, 2018, a spokesperson for the university said Monday.
Now, a group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has shown a second, equally sensible result of the evolutionary pressure called predation: faster growth among the surviving fish.
Noted: This year she collaborated with an outside group for the first time, working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum to create a maze in the shape of a trilobite, the state fossil.
In a one-year partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dane County will attempt to harness the university’s resources by working with students and professors to develop possible solutions in four challenging areas the county faces.
Noted: Ed Churchwell is a faculty member in the astronomy department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
hildren living in less affluent neighborhoods are less likely to be diagnosed with autism, according to a new study led by the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison researchers have set their sights on increasing treatment participation rates and options for those who suffer from opioid addiction after receiving a $3.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Taiwanese electronics company Foxconn announced its intentions to collaborate with Wisconsin cancer researchers, one of many potential national collaborations on cancer treatment and prevention.
n 2014, a family of red foxes found a new home amidst the students and staff on the UW-Madison campus. Over the next several months, UW-Madison’s David Drake and his Urban Canid Project team invited members of the public to join them in their efforts to tag and track the foxes and coyotes roaming Madison’s streets. Quotes Drake and mentions University Communications’ Kelly Tyrrell.
Eric Wilcots wanted to be an astronomer since he was a kid growing up in Philadelphia and watched the Voyager space probe images of Jupiter on television.
