Report on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study from Pamela Herd, a professor of public affairs and sociology, a faculty affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty and principal investigator of the study.
Smoking cessation pills aren’t any better than nicotine patches or lozenges at helping people successfully quit, a U.S. study suggests.
A Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinic in 2010 provided heart and brain tissues from aborted fetuses to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers for studies aimed at understanding the growth of babies with and without birth defects.
Many would describe using science to defy the laws of physics as a rare feat. But for University of Wisconsin assistant professor Mikhail Kats, it’s just another day in the lab.
Looking ahead to February, temperatures are expected to be above normal in Wisconsin, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison meteorologist.
Computer scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are tasked with protecting data from some of the nation’s most prolific science research programs, and they’ve just gotten a financial boost to bolster their efforts.
Certain types of debt that parents take on may have adverse effects on children’s socioemotional well-being according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Dartmouth published by the journal Pediatrics. The study sheds new light on the link between debt and family well-being, as previous research on debt has typically focused on how debt affects the mental health and well-being of adults and has yet to explore how parents’ debt may impact a child’s well-being.
While past studies have examined the ways in which debts affect the mental health and well-being of adults, new research led by professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Dartmouth College examines the problem from the child’s point of view.
The other bills include $500,000 to fund four dementia care specialists in counties with fewer than 150,000 people and a statewide specialist responsible for educating employers about dementia; $250,000 to train mobile crisis teams in how to care for those suffering from dementia; and $50,000 to fund research by UW-Madison’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have worked with colleagues at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection on a plan to help the state’s honey bees.
According to a new study, about 44 percent of working people diagnosed with metastatic cancer continue to work after their diagnoses. Interviewed:Amye Tevaarwerk, the UW-Madison oncologist who worked on the study about which factors are associated with employment changes among patients with metastatic cancer.
University of Wisconsin researchers say they’ve found a treatment to clean up the plaques that form in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease.
The research published in the journal Brain shows that compounds that inhibit two cellular proteins can help clean up the plaques found in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease. The proteins work inside the cell to remove toxic material.
Quoted: Luigi Puglielli, of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
Dick Lathrop, a UW-Madison expert on fresh water systems who served as one of the study’s principal investigators, comments.
New whey formulas are being worked on all the time at the UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research. Noted: Mark Stephenson, UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability director, comments on the state of the dairy market.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin has introduced new legislation to create industry standards for regenerative medicine.The bill would create a public-private board to set guidelines for regenerative medical products, including those developed from stem cells. Dr. Bill Murphy, co-director of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center, said the standards used currently aren’t specific to the cells and tissues used in the therapies.
Aaron Olver wants University Research Park to look more like a city. That, says URP’s managing director, includes bringing in restaurants, coffee shop and fitness centers, as well as adding more picnic tables and social events and expanding URP’s food carts program. It’s all part of an effort to attract more companies to URP and bring in talent that increasingly seeks urban spaces and collaboration.
Separate studies have been released that look at mercury contamination in the environment.
One shows scientists can track the type of mercury pollution that gets into the Great Lakes. The other shows global mercury pollution is declining.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is terminating its dairy sheep research and outreach program. Based at UW’s Spooner Agricultural Research Station, the program will end later this year, the result of state budget cuts.
Greenland’s vast ice sheet continues to melt, and thanks to two recently-launched satellites we’re beginning to understand why it’s happening so quickly. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison believe increased cloud cover over the ice sheet itself may be to blame for up to a third of the ice melt that is occurring, a new study indicates.
Clouds play an important role in melting Greenland’s ice sheet, say scientists.
Dr. Seth Dailey knows it’s hard to underestimate the power of voice. “Think about the number of people you make judgments about based on their voice,” says Dailey, a UW-Madison surgeon who specializes in vocal disorders. “We do it all the time. It’s part of the perceptual package. It affects how people can do their jobs with altered voice production. Vocal issues are more important than ever before in human history.”
Pro-life organizations and the legislators behind (the fetal tissue ban) bill and two other bills held a Rally for Life on the Capitol steps, urging lawmakers to pass all three. The groups are particularly focused on encouraging Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, to schedule a vote, because they believe the Assembly has the votes to pass the legislation. But Vos said Tuesday Republican lawmakers are still working to reach a compromise on the proposal, which is an updated version of a 2013 bill that would ban the “sale, transfer or experimentation” of fetal body parts.
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin-Madison have won a four-year, $5 million federal grant to study the brain networks of epilepsy patients. Their study, called the Epilepsy Connectome Project, will involve state-of-the-art brain imaging of about 200 adult temporal lobe epilepsy patients from across the state.
As anti-abortion advocates put pressure on Wisconsin lawmakers to pass a bill banning research on aborted fetal tissue, a top Senate Republican says it’s uncertain whether it will be brought to the Senate floor by the end of the legislative session.
Her first book, ‘On the Run’ — about thelives of young black men in WestPhiladelphia — has fueled a fight withinsociology over who gets to speak for whom.
BETHESDA, MARYLAND—Fuzzy definitions, deep disagreement about risks and benefits, and an unfortunate acronym: All bedeviled an expert panel as it met here last week to examine whether the United States should fund certain risky pathogen experiments. Researchers largely praised a massive, recently released risk assessment of so-called gain-of-function (GOF) research, and a draft plan for reviewing the riskiest studies. Many had concerns about the details, however, and the meeting provided little clarity on one key issue: if and when the U.S. government will decide whether to lift a now 15-month-old moratorium on a handful of U.S.-funded virology experiments.
Q – Can stem cells be used to repair brain damage or help someone with Alzheimer’s, dementia or Parkinson’s?— Kate Krueger, 47, Madison
A – The simple answer to the question is yes. It is possible to regenerate parts of the brain with stem cells, just like we can in other organs.
Companies less than a year old accounted for all of Wisconsin’s net new job creation in 2012, according to a new study conducted by two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
In response to departmental budget cuts, the University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to end its research on dairy sheep — a program it says is unique to Wisconsin, but is no longer affordable.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will close its dairy sheep research program and disperse the flock of about 300 ewes in the fall, as the university rethinks how it serves the state’s broad agricultural sectors in light of state budget cuts.
“Interspecies yeast hybrid” sounds like either a black metal band or a horror movie, but the truth is stranger yet: Yeast hybridization is procreation between very different kinds of Beer goes back at least to the Egyptians, but it was only 500 years ago that what is conservatively estimated as a one-in-a-billion chance cross between yeast species allowed for the production of the first lager. It was Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which makes bread, wine and ale possible, and its distant cousin Saccharomyces eubayanus that accidently married to give us the basis for making lagers. Lagers are characterized by cold maturation with bottom-fermenting yeast and a quaffable taste profile.
Former United Nations bioweapons inspector Rocco Casagrande has a Ph.D. in experimental biology from MIT. He’s got a rational, science-loving mind, so he’s not the kind of guy you’d expect to have a big picture of a tarot card hanging over his office desk.
The achievement gap has been a persistent problem in Wisconsin’s schools, and now the state and UW-Madison are teaming up to try to find an answer. Our guests from the Department of Public Instruction and UW’s Center for Education Research explain why they’re optimistic about the partnership’s ability to close…
Two pro-life organizations have launched a television advertising campaign to encourage legislative action on the fetal tissue research ban. However, it was reported Monday that at least two TV stations have refused to air the ads during prime viewing times.
Despite all the heavy rain in the first half of December, with flood warnings across parts of the state, Wisconsinites should be thankful they didn’t experience a downpour on the order of 5 inches in just 24 hours. Such extreme rainfall can cause damaging flooding, severe soil erosion and crop loss. Wisconsin is experiencing these events more frequently, a trend that is expected to continue as the planet’s climate warms. However, it is important to note that any given weather event can’t be attributed to long-term climate change.
Noted: The latest study included researchers from several government agencies and universities, including the University of Michigan, UW-Madison and the University of Notre Dame.
An anti-abortion group has started airing a television commercial calling on Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to hold a vote on a bill that would prohibit research using tissue taken from aborted fetuses.
Noted: Jim Lattis is the director of UW Space Place in the UW-Madison astronomy department.
When a dealer at a New York coin show showed astronomer Michael Molnar an ancient Roman coin minted in Syria that featured a picture of Zeus on one side and Aries the ram on the other, he bought it for $50.
Noted: The research first started in chickens. Animal science professor Mark Cook and associate researchers disabled a gene that helps defeat the immune system in sick hens.
From that discovery came ground-breaking work inside Arlington’s UW Beef Nutrition Farm, where researchers have been feeding those hens’ eggs to cattle in an effort to help prevent disease without the use of antibiotics.
When your grade-school science teacher described the various methods one can use to construct a telescope, drilling countless holes a mile and a half deep into Antarctic ice probably wasn’t one of them. But that’s exactly how the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory works.
A center that focuses on clean energy research will continue operating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after a $3.5 million grant from the school’s research foundation.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s grant to the Wisconsin Energy Institute was announced Tuesday [Dec. 22].
New research conducted by psychologists at University of Wisconsin-Madison has found that people who learn to meditate on compassion are more likely to help someone who is being treated unfairly.
Top story – Japan’s New Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every 10 Minutes – features imagery from Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.
An international study involving 26 centers around the world has produced a more detailed picture of the genetic factors involved in age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. The University of Wisconsin-Madison was one of the 26 centers involved in the study which was just published in the journal Nature Genetics.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will provide $3.5 million to fill a budget hole and help a hub for energy research keep operating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Funding for the Wisconsin Energy Institute had been cut in the state budget lawmakers approved this summer. Gov. Scott Walker removed the funding as part of a proposal to cut back state support for the university system and give it more autonomy.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation plans to give $3.5 million to keep the Wisconsin Energy Institute operating for a year. It’s a stopgap move after state lawmakers passed a budget in July that removed $8.1 million in funding over two years for the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative.
A study co-authored by a Wisconsin researcher says that when humans showed up on Earth, changes came to a plant-animal association that had lasted 300 million years.
Noted: The $5.25 million grant will span four years. The money will support research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and the Institute for Research on Poverty, officials said.
A University of Wisconsin researcher known worldwide for his work on influenza and ebola is the winner of a prestigious award from the United Nations.
An analysis of rivers and streams finds the waterways — collectively — are a bigger source of the greenhouse gas, methane, than previously estimated, according to a study led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.
The letter, which was written by three UW-Madison scientists, contends that the bill “would severely restrict promising avenues of biomedical research for conditions such as diabetes, Down syndrome, heart failure, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury and more.”
Interviewed: David Drake of the Urban Canid Project and its efforts to find out more about the coyotes and foxes that make their homes in urban areas.
Noted: UW limnology professor John Magnuson says Mendota could soon go the way of other large lakes in the region and occasionally miss winter freezes.
Doug Todd of Wausau treasures the astonishingly gracious letter he received from Nobel Prize-winner William C. Campbell.
The Japanese professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka won the 2015 edition of Carlos J. Finlay UNESCO Prize for Microbiology, to be awarded on December 21 in a ceremony at the Cuban Academy of Sciences, in Havana.
The issue of food and housing insecurity on community college campuses across the country is now at the forefront of many discussions thanks in part to a report published by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Two projects at UW-Madison are going forward after approval Wednesday by a state panel.
The state building commission approved the renovation of the Babcock Hall dairy plant so it can house the Center for Dairy Research.
The building commission also okayed money for an addition to the UW-Madison police department on Monroe Street.
If you like your lager or ale served with a side of science, you might want to head up to Minocqua in the coming months.
In February 2014, staff from UW-Madison’s Living Environments Laboratory arrived at a Mazomanie residence where a murder had recently been committed.
