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In achievement and prestige, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has long been recognized as one of America’s great universities. A public, land-grant institution, UW-Madison offers a complete spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs and student activities. Many of its programs are hailed as world leaders in instruction, research and public service.The university traces its roots to a clause in the Wisconsin Constitution, which decreed that the state should have a prominent public university. In 1848, Nelson Dewey, Wisconsin’s first governor, signed the act that formally created the university, and its first class, with 17 students, met in a Madison school building on February 5, 1849. From those humble beginnings, the university has grown into a large, diverse community, with about 40,000 students enrolled each year. These students represent every state in the nation, as well as countries from around the globe, making for a truly international population. UW-Madison is the oldest and largest campus in the University of Wisconsin System, a statewide network of 13 comprehensive universities, 13 freshman-sophomore transfer colleges and an extension service. One of two doctorate-granting universities in the system, UW-Madison’s specific mission is to provide "a learning environment in which faculty, staff and students can discover, examine critically, preserve and transmit the knowledge, wisdom and values that will help insure the survival of this and future generations and improve the quality of life for all." The university achieves these ends through innovative programs of research, teaching and public service. Throughout its history, UW-Madison has sought to bring the power of learning into the daily lives of its students through innovations such as residential learning communities and service-learning opportunities. Students also participate freely in research, which has led to life-improving inventions from more fuel-efficient engines to cutting-edge genetic therapies. Students, faculty and staff are motivated by a tradition known as the "Wisconsin Idea," described by UW President Charles Van Hise in 1904 as the compelling need to carry "the beneficent influence of the university ... to every home in the state." The Wisconsin Idea permeates the university’s work and helps forge close working relationships among university faculty and students and the state’s industries and government. |
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In a painstaking set of experiments in overweight mice, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a gene that appears to play an important role in the onset of type 2 diabetes. |
30 September 2006 |
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Aided by a powerful imaging technique, scientists have discovered they can detect smoking-related lung damage in healthy smokers who otherwise display none of the telltale signs of tobacco use. |
03 September 2006 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have demonstrated a way to release thin membranes of semiconductors from a substrate and transfer them to new surfaces, an advance that could unite the properties of silicon and many other materials, including diamond, metal and even plastic. |
03 September 2006 |
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The cellular process of transcription, in which the enzyme RNA polymerase constructs chains of RNA from information contained in DNA, depends upon previously underappreciated sections of both the DNA promoter region and RNA polymerase, according to work done with the bacterium E. coli and published in the journal Cell by a team of bacteriologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
02 September 2006 |
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Inhaled into the lungs of a mammal, spores from a class of six related soil molds found around the world encounter a new, warmer environment. And as soon as they do, they rapidly shift gears and assume the guise of pathogenic yeast, causing such serious and sometimes deadly afflictions as blastomycosis and histoplasmosis. |
02 September 2006 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found that sirtuins, a family of enzymes linked to a longer life span and healthier aging in humans, may orchestrate the activity of other enzymes involved in metabolic processes in the body. |
01 September 2006 |
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Educators from around Wisconsin will join with educators in Indiana and Minnesota to explore the convergence of nanotechnology and biotechnology with a panel of experts drawn from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the National Science Foundation and Wisconsin's biotechnology community. The New Technologies symposium will originate from the Pyle Center at UW-Madison and will be broadcast live via Internet2 beginning at 8 a.m. |
01 September 2006 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineers have developed a method for fabricating 'packages' of tiny sensors that measure temperature more accurately than bulk thermocouples. Inserted unobtrusively in critical locations, these metal-embedded micro-thin film thermocouples could more effectively monitor conditions and diagnose problems during manufacturing processes such as injection-molding or die-casting. |
31 August 2006 |
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The soaring prices of oil and natural gas have sparked a race to make transportation fuels from plant matter instead of petroleum. Both biodiesel and gasoline containing ethanol are starting to make an impact on the market. |
31 August 2006 |
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It's not that the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering is excessively messy. Rather, he's studying bioreactor landfills, a relatively recent technology in solid-waste management that may help landfill owners make better use of their land-and of the waste itself. |
31 August 2006 |
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Response to the effort by John and Tashia Morgridge to jump-start the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery by providing $3 million in seed grants for research has exceeded expectations, generating more than 220 initial proposals. |
30 August 2006 |
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As the mass media continues to bombard us with airbrushed images of stick-thin supermodels, it's no surprise that scores of women in the United States now judge their own bodies by those standards, and often start hating themselves in the process. |
29 August 2006 |
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Voluntary exercise and a restricted diet reduced the number and size of pre-cancerous polyps in the intestines of male mice and improved survival, according to a study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison research published in the journal Carcinogenesis. |
29 August 2006 |
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Early data from the Wisconsin Smokers' Health Study suggest that treatments provided in the study are producing some of the highest quit rates ever achieved. Among study participants receiving active medication, more than 60 percent have remained tobacco-free at the end of treatment (one of the measures used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). |
28 August 2006 |
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today issued a call for proposals for a new program to stimulate innovations in personal health information technology. The project is directed by Patricia Flatley Brennan, professor of nursing and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
28 August 2006 |
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Women with breast cancer who participate in computer support groups can obtain emotional benefits when they openly express themselves in ways that help them make sense of their cancer experience, according to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research. |
22 March 2006 |
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While environmental pollutants constantly swirl around children in all walks of life, past research has shown that children in poor, minority populations are disproportionately likely to be exposed to harmful toxins such as lead and agricultural pesticides. |
22 March 2006 |
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The most ironic thing about Mark Johnson, one of Wisconsin's leading experts on cheese, is that he spent the first half of his life simply hating the stuff. 'Even after I became a cheese-maker I just hated the taste of cheese,' he says. 'And cottage cheese was the worst.' |
16 March 2006 |
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Scientists have pinpointed exactly how botulinum neurotoxin A, a potential agent of biological warfare and one of the most lethal toxins known to humans - is able to sneak into cells. |
16 March 2006 |
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The jolt of excitement from the January discovery of a new high-temperature superconducting metal, magnesium diboride, may get another voltage boost this week with evidence that the material can carry electrical currents at high density. |
07 March 2006 |
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Liquid crystals, the same phase-shifting materials used to display information on cell phones, monitors and other electronic equipment, can also be used to report in real time on the differentiation of embryonic stem cells. |
06 March 2006 |
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When a new mom gazes at her baby, it's not just her mood that lights up, it's also a brain region associated with emotion processing, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
27 February 2006 |
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Recent research on the genetics of smoking has focused on genes that are thought to be related to nicotine metabolism, personality traits, and regulation of emotions. According to a genetic study just published in 'Nicotine and Tobacco Research,' genes responsible for taste also may yield important information about who smokes and why they smoke. |
22 February 2006 |
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As spring approaches, thousands of anglers eagerly anticipate the day they can cast their lines into a clear lake and pull out fish for dinner. But at the same time, departments of natural resources in approximately 40 states issue advisories that help fishermen avoid eating a mercury-contaminated catch. |
15 February 2006 |
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It is the most important structural protein in the body, reinforcing connective tissue, bones and teeth, and forming long, fibrous cables to strengthen tendons. Collagen forms sheets of tissue that support the skin and every internal organ. There is nothing in the body, in fact, that does not depend in some way on collagen. |
13 February 2006 |
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When graduate student Pengpeng Zhang successfully imaged a piece of silicon just 10 nanometers-or a millionth of a centimeter-in thickness, she and her University of Wisconsin-Madison co-researchers were puzzled. According to established thinking, the feat should be impossible because her microscopy method required samples that conduct electricity. |
08 February 2006 |
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Now, digging in a colonial era graveyard in one of the oldest European cities in Mexico, archaeologists have found what they believe are the oldest remains of slaves brought from Africa to the New World. The remains date between the late-16th century and the mid-17th century, not long after Columbus first set foot in the Americas. |
31 January 2006 |
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After years of trial and error, scientists have coaxed human embryonic stem cells to become spinal motor neurons, critical nervous system pathways that relay messages from the brain to the rest of the body. |
31 January 2006 |
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Although the rates of volunteerism among high schoolers appear to be healthy, a study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher suggests that 'resume-padding', not simple altruis, may be the driving force. |
30 January 2006 |
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The sentiment is not without some truth in the challenging world of research science, where an advisor's ability to step in as an encouraging mentor is sometimes the one thing that keeps a student going. |
29 January 2006 |
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It wasn't publicized, other than by word of mouth, and still the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine was overwhelmed with requests. Since 1998, the school's oncology department has been producing an anti-cancer vaccine for dogs diagnosed with melanoma. |
26 January 2006 |
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But although much is known about the genes and inner workings of flu viruses, how the microbe organizes its genetic contents to seed future generations of viruses has remained an enduring mystery of biology. |
25 January 2006 |
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Researchers have labored for decades to understand blindness-inducing neurodegenerative diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. |
18 January 2006 |
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Stereotypes about who will use online support groups are wrong, according to research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The researchers found that age, income and education did not predict participation, although minorities were not as active as other users. |
18 January 2006 |
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Weather lovers have a new tool at hand to obtain weather information on demand through a PDA-friendly weather Web service created by Russ Dengel at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
16 January 2006 |
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Ants that tend and harvest gardens of fungus have a secret weapon against the parasites that invade their crops: antibiotic-producing bacteria that the insects harbor on their bodies. |
05 January 2006 |
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Two University of Wisconsin-Madison projects to study advanced materials and fuels for current and future nuclear reactors received roughly $1 million this month under the Department of Energy Nuclear Energy Research Initiative. |
28 December 2005 |
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Two decades ago, with the advent of methods to look at the family relationships of different organisms by analyzing DNA, scientists envisioned it would only be a matter of time before the various family trees for plants, animals, fungi and their kin would be resolved with genetic precision. |
22 December 2005 |
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Alzheimer's disease is one of the most hauntingly destructive maladies to wreak havoc on humans. It robs children of parents and spouses of each other-with lifetimes of memories lost forever behind blank stares. |
21 December 2005 |
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One of the great challenges for treating Parkinson's diseases and other neurodegenerative disorders is getting medicine to the right place in the brain.
The brain is a complex organ with many different types of cells and structures, and it is fortified with a protective barrier erected by blood vessels and glial cells - the brain's structural building block, that effectively blocks the delivery of most drugs from the bloodstream. |
15 December 2005 |
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Working with mice, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed the basis for a therapeutic strategy that could provide hope for children afflicted with Krabbe's disease, a fatal nervous system disorder. |
12 December 2005 |
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As global populations swell, farmers are cultivating more and more land in a desperate bid to keep pace with the ever-intensifying needs of humans. As a result, agricultural activity now dominates more than a third of the Earth's landscape and has emerged as one of the central forces of global environmental change, say scientists at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
05 December 2005 |
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A trio of innovations may enable physicians to plan prostate cancer patients' treatment in real time and to implant cancer-killing radiation 'seeds' more accurately and efficiently. |
01 December 2005 |
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In the event of an influenza pandemic, the world's vaccine manufacturers will be in a race against time to forestall calamity. But now, thanks to a new technique to more efficiently produce the disarmed viruses that are the seed stock for making flu vaccine in large quantities, life-saving inoculations may be available more readily than before. The work is especially important as governments worldwide prepare for a predicted pandemic of avian influenza. |
31 October 2005 |
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It seems obvious to assume that marriage rates are waning in the industrialized world because women are more educated and financially independent than ever before. But sociologists say the connection is hardly so black or white. |
24 October 2005 |
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That is the upshot of an intensive study of the traveling behaviors of 173 radio-collared white-tailed deer in south central Wisconsin. The new results, which surprised researchers by revealing how little deer move about the landscape, are important because they may help researchers and wildlife managers better understand how chronic wasting disease spreads. |
21 October 2005 |
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That is the upshot of an intensive study of the traveling behaviors of 173 radio-collared white-tailed deer in south central Wisconsin. The new results, which surprised researchers by revealing how little deer move about the landscape, are important because they may help researchers and wildlife managers better understand how chronic wasting disease spreads. |
21 October 2005 |
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One of the isomers of conjugated linoleic acid, a group of fatty acids found in milk, is a natural regulator of the COX-2 protein, which plays a significant role in inflammatory disease such as arthritis and cancer, according to a study published by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers. |
18 October 2005 |
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An avian influenza virus isolated from an infected Vietnamese girl has been determined to be resistant to the drug oseltamivir, the compound better known by its trade name Tamiflu, and the drug officials hope will serve as the front line of defense for a feared influenza pandemic. |
14 October 2005 |
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With the help of new silicon-based compounds, scientists, and patients, are getting a significant new charge out of the tiny lithium batteries used in implantable devices to help treat nervous system and other disorders. |
03 October 2005 |
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'Smaller. Faster. Wildly complex.' This could easily be the motto for semiconductors-the materials that, among lots of other advances in electronics, allow cell phones to continuously shrink in size while increasing the number of their mind-boggling functions. |
30 September 2005 |
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In the human brain, cells talk to one another through the routine exchange of electrical signals. But when people fall into a deep sleep, the higher regions of the brain, regions that during waking hours are a bustling grid of neural dialogue, apparently lose their ability to communicate effectively, causing consciousness to fade. |
29 September 2005 |
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Vibrantly colored creatures from the depths of the South Pacific Ocean harbor toxins that potentially can act as powerful anti-cancer drugs, according to research findings from University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemists and their Italian colleagues. |
26 September 2005 |
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Mobility is the new mantra for student technology usage on campus, according to an annual survey that finds laptop computer ownership about to surpass desktop computers and an expanding interest in wireless access. |
06 September 2005 |
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One of the greatest agricultural and evolutionary puzzles is the origin of maize, and part of the answer may lie in a plot of corn on the western edge of Madison, where a hybrid crop gives new life to ancient genetic material. |
31 August 2005 |
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The latest research from Rick Gourse's lab is another link in the chain of fundamental breakthroughs on the biology of E. coli that have come from UW-Madison scientists. |
31 August 2005 |
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The mere mention of a stressful word like 'wheeze' can activate two brain regions in asthmatics during an attack, and this brain activity may be associated with more severe asthma symptoms, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and collaborators. |
29 August 2005 |
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Long polymer 'bandages,' designed so that troops could quickly repair or reinforce bridges to bear the weight of 113-ton military tank transport vehicles, now could be used to quickly and inexpensively strengthen aging rural bridges and concrete culverts around the country. |
15 August 2005 |
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Long polymer 'bandages,' designed so that troops could quickly repair or reinforce bridges to bear the weight of 113-ton military tank transport vehicles, now could be used to quickly and inexpensively strengthen aging rural bridges and concrete culverts around the country. |
15 August 2005 |
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Long polymer 'bandages,' designed so that troops could quickly repair or reinforce bridges to bear the weight of 113-ton military tank transport vehicles, now could be used to quickly and inexpensively strengthen aging rural bridges and concrete culverts around the country. |
15 August 2005 |
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The chemical pathways by which alcohol causes neurological cell death in chick embryos overlap with the pathways that give alcohol its addictive properties, a University of Wisconsin-Madison fetal alcohol researcher announced in a study published this month in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. |
09 August 2005 |
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Do diamonds really last forever? That's the hope of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers who are trying to solve the problems associated with building extremely small machines and having them withstand the test of time, wear and tear. |
14 July 2005 |
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Anyone who has listened to the constant whir of a computer's fan or held a laptop for too long knows how blazing hot computers can get. In fact, today's ultra-powerful computers generate so much heat that air cooling technology can't keep pace anymore, says University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineering professor Tim Shedd. |
11 July 2005 |
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Dr. Ruthanne Chun, a clinical veterinary oncologist who joined the staff this month of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, is dedicated to finding new and better ways to treat animals with cancer. |
22 June 2005 |
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Addressing a persistent debate in the field of dyslexia research, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Southern California have disproved the popular theory that deficits in certain visual processes cause the spelling and reading woes commonly suffered by dyslexics. |
31 May 2005 |
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By observing how tiny specks of crystal move through the layers of a biological membrane, a team of electrical and computer engineers and biologists has devised a new method for investigating living systems on the molecular level. |
28 April 2005 |
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A newly discovered pathway by which cells protect themselves from a toxic byproduct of photosynthesis may hold important implications for bioenergy sources, human and plant disease, and agricultural yields, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriologists announced Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
25 April 2005 |
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Unveiling a delivery method that may one day help surgeons treat the deadly neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have inserted engineered human stem cells into the spinal cords of ALS-afflicted rats. |
19 April 2005 |
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Certain Chlamydia infections, the kind that cause flu-like respiratory symptoms in thousands of people each year, can be clearly linked to serious heart attacks in relatively young men, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin Medical School researchers and their collaborators at Johns Hopkins University schools of medicine and public health. |
11 April 2005 |
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Manoeuvring external magnets, scientists can command the direction in which light bounces off tiny, magnetic wires that sway like matchsticks in thick, slow-moving solutions. |
13 March 2005 |
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In recent years, scientists have begun to catalog an astonishing array of small, distinct genetic elements that seem to play an important role in how genes function. |
08 March 2005 |
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Brain tests at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggest that autistic children shy from eye contact because they perceive even the most familiar face as an uncomfortable threat. |
07 March 2005 |
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As a result, governments and health officials need to begin to think about how to respond to an anticipated increase in the number and scope of climate-related health crises, ranging from killer heat waves and famine, to floods and waves of infectious diseases. |
21 February 2005 |
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In the spring of 2005, when the new Southern African Large Telescope trains its huge eye on the southern sky for the first time, the starlight it gathers will be parsed and analyzed by an instrument more befitting a space-based telescope than a ground-based monster. |
28 January 2005 |
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People with a rare enzyme mutation that makes their bodies smell like rotten fish find it devastating. Among those afflicted, suicide rates are high. But can those same enzymes yield desirable effects as well? |
27 January 2005 |
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Adapting a technique used routinely by geologists to measure the chemical composition of rocks, scientists may have found a better way to sample bone calcium balance in humans. In a report to scientists here today (Dec. 17, 2004) at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison paleontologist Joseph Skulan described the application of a standard geochemical technique to measure calcium isotopes in human urine. |
17 December 2004 |
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Professional athletes, including cyclists and distance runners, soon will have a powerful new tool to predict energy expenditure and performance during a race, thanks to a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Saris Cycling Group of Madison. The technology also has potential medical applications, including helping to treat obese children and adults and cardiac patients. |
14 December 2004 |
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Using a gene resurrected from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, recorded history's most lethal outbreak of infectious disease, scientists have found that a single gene may have been responsible for the devastating virulence of the virus. |
06 October 2004 |
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Using a vibrating arm less than one-millionth of an inch long and one-thousand times thinner than a human hair, a new transistor toggles on and off through the movement of a single electron. |
29 September 2004 |
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With guidance from Wisconsin's potato growers, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has launched a streamlined licensing program for seed potato farmers who wish to cultivate and sell varieties developed by the potato-breeding program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
16 September 2004 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found that sirtuins, a family of enzymes linked to a longer life span and healthier aging in humans, may orchestrate the activity of other enzymes involved in metabolic processes in the body. |
01 September 2004 |
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Although millions depend on medications such as Ritalin to quell symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, scientists have struggled to pinpoint how the drugs work in the brain. |
29 August 2004 |
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Although millions depend on medications such as Ritalin to quell symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, scientists have struggled to pinpoint how the drugs work in the brain. |
29 August 2004 |
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Although millions depend on medications such as Ritalin to quell symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, scientists have struggled to pinpoint how the drugs work in the brain. |
28 August 2004 |
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A picture is worth a thousand words, especially if it's of your arteries, suggests a new study published in the July issue of Clinical Cardiology. By non-invasively imaging the thickness of carotid arteries, the major vessels running up the neck and supplying the brain with blood, preventive cardiologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have helped to show people a clearer picture of their chances of developing heart disease or having a stroke. |
10 August 2004 |
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison will use its share of a three-year, $15 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to investigate ways to detect intentional contamination of the nation's food supply. |
08 July 2004 |
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Tuberculosis, a mycobacterium that infects human lungs, still claims the lives of about 2 million people every year. Existing vaccines provide questionable protection, and they can even cause disease in individuals with compromised immune systems. |
08 July 2004 |
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A new technology developed by a research group headed by Nimmi Ramanujam, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be a 'third eye' during breast biopsies and can increase the chance for an accurate clinical diagnosis of breast cancer. |
06 July 2004 |
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By developing a computer model that mimics how children learn to read, two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford University track the development of a skilled reader, ultimately showing that phonics gives readers an edge, especially early on. |
06 July 2004 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and artists will start reaching larger audiences when the Research Channel shows four documentaries that focus on work at the university. |
15 June 2004 |
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Despite a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs during the past 15 years, gene therapy has continued to attract many of the world's brightest scientists. They are tantalized by the enormous potential that replacing missing genes or disabling defective ones offers for curing diseases of many kinds. |
03 June 2004 |
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Thousands of veterans and their families will attend the Memorial Day weekend dedication of the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. Those visitors can find their names and the names and service information of their friends and family members using touch-screen kiosks that incorporate accessibility technologies developed at the Trace Research and Development Center in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
28 May 2004 |
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Some of the first data from a new orbiting infrared telescope are revealing that the Milky Way, and by analogy galaxies in general, is making new stars at a much more prolific pace than astronomers imagined. |
27 May 2004 |
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For children growing up poor, money isn't the only solution to overcoming the challenges of poverty. According to a new study, the genes and warm support received from parents also can buffer these children against many of the cognitive and behavioral problems for which poverty puts them at risk. The findings are published in the May issue of the journal Child Development. |
25 May 2004 |
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An article proposing a new method for measuring tobacco addiction, published in the latest edition of The Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology, suggests that one size does not fit all when it comes to motivations for smoking. |
20 May 2004 |
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With funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers will investigate what happens if infectious prion proteins, considered the cause of chronic wasting disease and mad cow disease, enter wastewater treatment plants. |
18 May 2004 |
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The thousands of people who suffer from postherpetic neuralgia, the severe burning pain that often follows the skin infection commonly known as shingles, now have new, durable relief from an unexpected source: capsaicin, the alkaloid that makes hot peppers hot. |
30 April 2004 |
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Like many other kinds of cells used in biomedical research, human embryonic stem cells are stored and transported in a cryopreserved state, frozen to -320 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of their liquid nitrogen storage bath. |
30 March 2004 |
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Viruses, often able to outsmart many of the drugs designed to defeat them, may have met their match, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
29 March 2004 |
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In recent years, scientists have unearthed a trove of subterranean microbial oddities, bugs that live and thrive in bizarre and extreme environments, and that accomplish remarkable feats to survive there. |
11 March 2004 |
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Mutations that allow AIDS viruses to escape detection by the immune system may also hinder the viruses' ability to grow after transmission to new hosts, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced this week in the journal Nature Medicine. |
16 February 2004 |
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When Katherine Cramer Walsh picked up a coffeepot and started pouring java for the regulars in a Michigan coffee shop one morning, she began three years of intimate research that revealed how ordinary people make sense of politics through casual conversation. |
15 January 2004 |
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Lasers do everything these days, from removing tattoos to playing music on compact discs. Now, in the great dairy state of Wisconsin, lasers have been harnessed to an entirely new purpose: slicing cheese. |
12 January 2004 |
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By studying the 'memory' of the respiratory system, a group of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has identified a key player, a protein called BDNF that's involved in learning, responsible for the body's ability to keep breathing properly, despite the challenges it may face. |
15 December 2003 |
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As utility companies search for ways to avoid blackouts, like the one that shut down the northeastern corner of the United States last summer, one idea comes from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
08 December 2003 |
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Like junkies without drugs, mice without running wheels crave what they lack, suggesting that some animals can develop an addiction for exercise, report scientists in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience. |
01 December 2003 |
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As our canine companions get older, a common joint problem could leave many of them stiff in the knee. Fortunately, a new device developed by researchers at UW-Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine may help veterinarians catch the problem early, before it results in permanent arthritis. |
12 November 2003 |
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It's a question most people wouldn't think, or want, really, to consider: What's in the average cat hairball besides hair? A team of scientists did ponder that question, however, and their curiosity has produced a new nutritional solution for hairballs that may improve the lives of thousands of felines and their owners. |
30 September 2003 |
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One of the great frustrations of modern medicine is the creeping ability of pathogenic microbes to develop resistance to the antibiotics we throw at them. More and more, microbes are able to eliminate, modify and sequester the toxic molecules that make up the arsenal of antibiotics that humans use to treat infection, making once-miraculous drugs increasingly impotent. Now, adding to the mix of devices dangerous microbes deploy to evade destruction by antibiotics, scientists have discovered another way pathogens escape from the most potent drugs: self-sacrifice. |
11 September 2003 |
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It's not that the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering is excessively messy. Rather, he's studying bioreactor landfills, a relatively recent technology in solid-waste management that may help landfill owners make better use of their land-and of the waste itself. |
31 August 2003 |
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By studying embryonic stem cells from a mouse, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have identified a potential model system for elucidating the stages of normal pancreatic development, as well as for developing a much-needed source of insulin-producing cells for the millions of people who need them to treat their diabetes. |
28 July 2003 |
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A growing compendium of research that suggests moderate alcohol consumption provides a cognitive boost at midlife is seriously flawed, according to a new study. 'Don't believe it if you're told moderate drinking is good for you cognitively,' says Robert Hauser, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of sociology and a co-author of a new study that examined the relationship of alcohol intake and cognition on people in their mid-50s. 'The research is deeply flawed.' |
22 July 2003 |
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With the help of an obscure microorganism with ancient roots, scientists have discovered that critical biological processes at work today in humans and other animals were in place before the advent of multicellular life on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. |
17 July 2003 |
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Scouring the genome of a wild Mexican potato, scientists have discovered a gene that protects potatoes against late blight, the devastating disease that caused the Irish potato famine. |
14 July 2003 |
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Writing this week in the journal Science chemical and biological engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report the discovery of a nickel-tin catalyst that can replace the precious metal platinum in a new, environmentally sustainable, greenhouse-gas-neutral, low-temperature process for making hydrogen fuel from plants. |
26 June 2003 |
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Addressing a persistent debate in the field of dyslexia research, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Southern California have disproved the popular theory that deficits in certain visual processes cause the spelling and reading woes commonly suffered by dyslexics. |
31 May 2003 |
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In the quest to peel back the mysteries of some of the most compelling physics in the cosmos, the enigmatic high-energy gamma-ray blazer, a jet spouting from a giant black hole, promises new insight into some astrophysical phenomena that, tantalizingly, seem to be just beyond the grasp of astronomers. |
28 May 2003 |
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It has long been known that tropical climate, by redistributing vast amounts of solar energy through welling hot air and the formation of towering cumulous clouds, influences weather in other parts of the world. |
21 May 2003 |
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Ever a favorite of biologists because of its record as a model to understand ailments like diabetes and cancer, the lab rat lost its luster as a research tool during the past decade because it defied attempts to manipulate its genome in a prescribed way. |
20 May 2003 |
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A newly discovered pathway by which cells protect themselves from a toxic byproduct of photosynthesis may hold important implications for bioenergy sources, human and plant disease, and agricultural yields, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriologists announced Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
25 April 2003 |
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Building on their 2001 discovery of a cellular doorway used by anthrax toxin to enter cells, University of Wisconsin Medical School researchers have found a second anthrax toxin doorway, or receptor. The finding could offer new clues to preventing the toxin's entrance into cells. |
07 April 2003 |
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By pumping a potent growth factor directly into the human brain, an international team of scientists and surgeons has demonstrated significant remediation of the debilitating symptoms of patients with Parkinson's disease. |
30 March 2003 |
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Liquid crystals, the same phase-shifting materials used to display information on cell phones, monitors and other electronic equipment, can also be used to report in real time on the differentiation of embryonic stem cells. |
06 March 2003 |
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In this time of the chronic threat of terrorism and the possibility of war with an adversary who may be armed with biological weapons, high on the wish list of security agencies and battlefield commanders is a quick and easy way to detect the presence of dangerous biological agents. |
04 March 2003 |
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To survive and thrive in a decidedly hostile environment, the lowly tapeworm uses a chemical trick to evade the propulsive nature of its intestinal home. Capitalizing on that tapeworm chemistry, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison believe they may have found a way to slow the transit of drugs through the intestine, making them more effective in their delivery and holding out the promise not only of more effective treatment, but also of lowering dosage and cost, and eliminating wasted medicine. |
01 March 2003 |
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Competition and contention were present in abundance in the 'discovery' of oxygen, and two special collections in the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries tell much of this lively piece of 18th-century history. |
27 February 2003 |
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By listening to the talk around them, infants pick up sound patterns that help them understand the speech they hear, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But this research also shows that some patterns are easier to identify, suggesting that the development of human language may have been shaped by what infants could learn. |
17 February 2003 |
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During the last decade, many American families have opened their hearts and homes to children adopted from Eastern European orphanages. But after coming to the United States, these children often suffer from a set of developmental problems that affect their growth, learning and social interactions. |
17 February 2003 |
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A quick and painless technique recently developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers could help clinicians identify signs of coronary heart disease, a condition that claims the lives of 2,000 Americans every day. |
11 February 2003 |
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By solving a long-standing puzzle about how the influenza virus assembles its genetic contents into infectious particles that enable the virus to spread from cell to cell, scientists have opened a new gateway to a better understanding of one of the world's most virulent diseases. |
27 January 2003 |
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In one of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods, a little girl with pigtails and a denim jumper stands in front of a table and fingers the shape of wooden letters as she fits them into a puzzle. In the next room, her mother talks to a parent-resource teacher about taking the GED and how she can help her daughter with homework. |
21 January 2003 |
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They say money can't buy love, but could it change the structure of your brain? When the going gets tough, do the tough live longer? And if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what can hard apple cider do? |
15 January 2003 |
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This tip sheet, a service of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides a quick summary of some of the latest campus research to find real-world application through the assistance of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Contact numbers are listed for all items. |
13 December 2002 |
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In the race to cure cancer, researchers look for roadblocks that could stop cancer in its tracks, preventing it from spreading to other parts of the body. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison may have found that blockade, an enzyme critical to the ability of cells to metastasize, a biological phenomenon by which cells migrate. The findings are published in the Nov. 7 issue of the journal Nature. |
06 November 2002 |
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Scientists have long searched for triggers that activate ribonucleic acid, a key component in gene expression. Now, in the journal Nature, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison report that they have found an enzyme that activates RNA, which could lead to new ways of regulating genetic information. |
18 September 2002 |
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In 1959, physics icon Richard Feynman, in a characteristic back-of-the-envelope calculation, predicted that all the words written in the history of the world could be contained in a cube of material one two-hundredths of an inch wide, provided those words were written with atoms. |
03 September 2002 |
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Exploring the genomes of two different but related soil microbes, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found the genes that govern the production of a class of highly potent anticancer agents. |
15 August 2002 |
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The overuse of antibiotics not only leads to more resistant strains of infection, but, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, antibiotics also may be adversely affecting zooplankton, tiny organisms that underpin the health of all freshwater ecosystems. |
07 August 2002 |
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For the first time, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have designed a semiconductor-based device that can trap individual electrons and line them up, an advance that could bring quantum computing out of the gee-whiz world of scientific novelty and into the practical realm. |
23 July 2002 |
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In the late 1980s, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers developed a synthetic solution that could safely store organs outside the body for longer than ever before. Their advance, known as the UW Solution, became the gold standard of organ preservation techniques. |
16 July 2002 |
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Dr. Ruthanne Chun, a clinical veterinary oncologist who joined the staff this month of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, is dedicated to finding new and better ways to treat animals with cancer. |
22 June 2002 |
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Spotting forest fires in remote areas will be faster and easier this summer as fire-weather forecasters begin using a new technique that automatically detects wildfires in environmental satellite imagery. |
17 June 2002 |
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Using a new sky survey instrument called WHAM, astronomers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have detected a faint gas that spreads into the far reaches of the galaxy and sometimes forms distinct strands that stretch halfway across the sky. |
03 June 2002 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Ruth Litovsky has developed a hearing test that simulates the noisy real world, and the results could improve our understanding not only of hearing but also of developmental and learning disabilities among children. |
22 May 2002 |
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By observing how tiny specks of crystal move through the layers of a biological membrane, a team of electrical and computer engineers and biologists has devised a new method for investigating living systems on the molecular level. |
28 April 2002 |
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With breast cancer, early detection may mean the difference between life and death. Today's doctors are increasingly using magnetic resonance imaging to find tiny masses of suspicious breast tissue they cannot see with conventional mammography or ultrasound. |
25 April 2002 |
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Herpes simplex virus type 1, the virus that causes cold sores, is the most common cause of new genital herpes infections in University of Wisconsin-Madison students, says a new study. |
04 March 2002 |
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Using stem cells as a window to the earliest developmental processes in the human brain, scientists have found that a group of genes critical for brain development is selectively disrupted in Down syndrome. |
30 January 2002 |
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A common antibiotic, long used to treat infections in humans, may have potential as a treatment for multiple sclerosis, a devastating disease of the central nervous system, according to a new study published today, Dec. 21, in the Annals of Neurology. |
21 December 2001 |
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Without the help of fossils or any other record from the distant past, scientists have identified what they believe represents a common ancestor of all animals on Earth, a microscopic organism with key genetic traits that, until now, have been found only in true animals. |
17 December 2001 |
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Adapting a technique used routinely by geologists to measure the chemical composition of rocks, scientists may have found a better way to sample bone calcium balance in humans. |
17 December 2001 |
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Professional athletes, including cyclists and distance runners, soon will have a powerful new tool to predict energy expenditure and performance during a race, thanks to a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Saris Cycling Group of Madison. The technology also has potential medical applications, including helping to treat obese children and adults and cardiac patients. |
14 December 2001 |
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In a set of meticulous experiments, scientists have demonstrated the ability of human embryonic stem cells to develop into nascent brain cells and, seeded into the intact brains of baby mice, further develop into healthy, functioning neural cells. |
30 November 2001 |
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Gender hormones may be a key factor in the onset of a common human disorder called sleep apnea, suggest findings from a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine. |
27 November 2001 |
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For years, scientists have used mouse embryonic stem cells as a window to the mysteries of early development. In more recent times, the vast biomedical potential of human stem cells has sparked the public imagination and held out hope for millions of people with chronic cell-based diseases. |
25 October 2001 |
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Researchers at UW Medical School's McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and their collaborators at Harvard Medical School have found the receptor, a docking structure, that anthrax toxin binds to in order to enter cells. |
23 October 2001 |
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While you read this, countless children across America are being slapped, kicked, burned with lighted cigarettes or locked in closets. Others will be raped, or told over and over that their mother wishes they never had been born. Some children will drift along city streets until, or if, a caregiver comes home. Other kids will miss breakfast and dinner for days on end. Some will be dropped off in parking lots and never picked up. And some, of course, will die. |
22 October 2001 |
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Contrary to longstanding theories of gender and psychology, women and men can benefit by taking on more than one traditional social role, such as worker or parent, report two researchers in the October issue of American Psychologist. |
08 October 2001 |
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By successfully inserting a gene from a jellyfish into the fertilized eggs of rhesus monkeys, scientists have managed to make transgenic placentas, placentas where the inserted gene functions as it does in the jellyfish. |
10 September 2001 |
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By incorporating the slightest change in the arrangement of its molecules, the virus responsible for a brief but frightening influenza outbreak in Hong Kong several years ago can quickly morph from a relatively benign virus to a killer. |
06 September 2001 |
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For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells can be teased down a developmental pathway to become blood cells. |
31 August 2001 |
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An ongoing research project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is tracking the communication challenges posed by Down and fragile X syndromes, the two most common genetic causes of mental retardation. |
17 July 2001 |
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Research has long demonstrated the educational value of early intervention for America's at-risk children, but a new study also shows the federal programs are a wise public investment. |
26 June 2001 |
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Commercial potential is growing for magnesium-diboride, a recently discovered high-temperature superconducting metal, with new evidence that alloying enables the metal to carry very high electric current at a high magnetic field. |
30 May 2001 |
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One of the world's largest and most malodorous flowers is about to bloom at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The titan arum or 'corpse flower,' noted for a malodorous stench given off by blooms that can have a diameter of as much as four feet, is exceedingly rare among cultivated plants. The nascent bloom at UW-Madison is the first in Wisconsin and may be only the twelfth recorded bloom in the United States. |
29 May 2001 |
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The drive by HMOs to 'medicalize' psychotherapy - insisting that practitioners look for a medical disorder such as clinical depression and then dispense a prescribed treatment, will ultimately suffocate psychotherapy through ignorance of how it works. |
07 May 2001 |
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That scenario, where a single gene orchestrates the construction of a fruit fly wing by commanding a network of many other genes, is described in the Friday, April 13 edition of the journal Science by a team of researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
17 April 2001 |
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CONTACT: Richard Davidson, (608) 262-8972, rjdavids@facstaff.wisc.edu
Ned Kalin, (608) 263-6079, nkalin@facstaff.wisc.edu
NOTE TO REPORTERS, EDITORS: A media briefing and tour of the new brain imaging facility will be held Wednesday, April 25, at 1:30 p.m. Media may park in the north lot of the Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Ave. |
30 March 2001 |
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In treating brain tumors with radiation surgery, doctors face this manual task: Develop a treatment plan that bombards the entire tumor, minimizes exposure outside the target and avoids sensitive brain structures. The job must be done by analyzing scores of two-dimensional brain images and completed within 40 minutes, as the patient waits in an uncomfortable head frame. |
19 February 2001 |
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Depending on your point of view, the great promise or peril of modern agriculture has germinated on millions of acres of North American cropland as the genetically modified organism, or GMO, has taken center stage. |
19 February 2001 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have found high levels of a common chemical flame retardant in Lake Michigan salmon, says a report published today, by the journal Environmental Science and Technology. |
14 February 2001 |
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Using stem cells as a window to the earliest developmental processes in the human brain, scientists have found that a group of genes critical for brain development is selectively disrupted in Down syndrome. |
30 January 2001 |
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The newly completed genomic sequence of E. coli O157:H7 reveals how these potentially deadly bacteria are armed with a surprisingly wide range of genes that may trigger illness. |
30 January 2001 |
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In one of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods, a little girl with pigtails and a denim jumper stands in front of a table and fingers the shape of wooden letters as she fits them into a puzzle. In the next room, her mother talks to a parent-resource teacher about taking the GED and how she can help her daughter with homework. |
21 January 2001 |
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Reading the telltale chemical signature of a mineral sample determined to be the world's oldest known terrestrial material, scientists have reconstructed a portrait that suggests the early Earth, instead of being a roiling ocean of magma, was cool enough to have water, continents and conditions that could have supported life. |
10 January 2001 |
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Scientists have pinpointed the gene responsible for a rare and devastating childhood brain disorder called Alexander disease, solving a 50-year-old mystery regarding its cause. |
02 January 2001 |
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A new map showing Wisconsin's land cover in extraordinary detail is available from the State Cartographer's Office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Such a detailed map will be useful to travelers, hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts, teachers, and anyone else with an interest or concern about Wisconsin's landscape, says Assistant State Cartographer Bob Gurda. |
17 December 2000 |
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A new research project in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's College of Engineering to integrate semiconductor materials may lead to new applications in sensing, computing and wireless communication. |
11 December 2000 |
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A new take on teaching evolution in public schools, an issue stoked
white-hot by the recent decision of the Kansas state board of education,
can be found in a high school course developed at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. The difference between this course and those typically
taught across America is the difference between learning by rote and by
discovery. |
23 November 2000 |
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Scientists working with monkeys at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered new evidence explaining why retroviruses such as HIV in people and SIV in rhesus monkeys are so variable and difficult for the body's immune system to target and kill. |
19 November 2000 |
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From a routine study of the life span of human skin cells, a University of Wisconsin-Madison research project gave rise to an astonishing accident: A line of skin cells that simply wouldn't die. |
14 November 2000 |
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Gelsomina De Stasio speaks English and Italian with equal fluency. But when she speaks of a 'multi-lingual approach' to curing cancer, it has little to do with either language. De Stasio, a physics professor and one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's new strategic hires, talks about multilingual science: a hybrid of physics, chemistry, biology and oncology that is guiding her to new approaches to fighting lethal cancers. |
23 August 2000 |
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Eating less may be good for the health of your brain, and may help keep debilitating ailments such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases at bay. That is the message derived from a pathbreaking study that employed a powerful new gene-scanning technique to analyze activity in thousands of genes to create a molecular portrait of the aging brain in mice. |
26 June 2000 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Bruce Christensen pops open the door of a sealed research room about the size of a walk-in freezer. Except this room radiates with dank, tropical heat, and is full of cloth-covered containers crawling with armies of hungry mosquitoes. |
10 May 2000 |
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In the rarefied world of high-end physics and chemistry, homing in on and manipulating individual atoms like Legos, stacking, sorting, arranging, is no big deal. |
05 May 2000 |
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Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have a chance in April to build evidence that microgravity is fertile ground for crop improvement.
The Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics, in partnership with the Indiana biotechnology company Producers' Natural Processing, will direct a research project aboard NASA's April 24 space shuttle mission, STS 101. |
05 April 2000 |
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A newfound microbe that eats iron and lives in acid-drenched conditions has been identified as a chief suspect in the environmental damage caused by metal ore mining. |
09 March 2000 |
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Competition and contention were present in abundance in the 'discovery' of oxygen, and two special collections in the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries tell much of this lively piece of 18th-century history. |
27 February 2000 |
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Scientists have shown for the first time, using a nonhuman primate model, that the AIDS virus avoids the body's strongest immune responses during the first few weeks of infection. The finding, which appears in the Sept. 21 issue of Nature, opens the door to new vaccine directions. |
20 February 2000 |
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By listening to the talk around them, infants pick up sound patterns that help them understand the speech they hear, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But this research also shows that some patterns are easier to identify, suggesting that the development of human language may have been shaped by what infants could learn. |
17 February 2000 |
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Taking a page from modern astronomy, where scientists are making a raft of new discoveries by sampling starlight across the electromagnetic spectrum, a group of chemists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has refined a powerful new way to probe the molecular universe using infrared light. |
08 February 2000 |
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By solving a long-standing puzzle about how the influenza virus assembles its genetic contents into infectious particles that enable the virus to spread from cell to cell, scientists have opened a new gateway to a better understanding of one of the world's most virulent diseases. |
27 January 2000 |
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They say money can't buy love, but could it change the structure of your brain? When the going gets tough, do the tough live longer? And if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what can hard apple cider do? |
15 January 2000 |
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