When it comes to stem cell research as a political issue, Wisconsin voters are more likely to be motivated by ideas of economic benefit and scientific progress than by religious objections, according to a new report.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin and UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos E. Santiago have announced the establishment of the first UW-Madison/UW-Milwaukee Intercampus Research Incentive Grants Program, an initiative to support research projects and scholarship undertaken jointly at the two campuses.
Officials from the federal Economic Research Service have chosen the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty to be a national center for research on nutrition assistance programs.
A University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health team has made a discovery important to the millions of people who are on common medications for heart and neurological diseases.
A new study reconsiders and ultimately rejects a well-publicized claim that mass privatization of state enterprises caused a drastic increase in premature deaths after the fall of communism in ex-Soviet countries.
Your facial expression may tell the world what you are thinking or feeling. But it also affects your ability to understand written language related to emotions, according to research that was presented today (Jan. 29).
Two Wisconsin property tax credits are not only expensive – nearly $900 million per year out of a $13 billion general fund budget – but they are a highly inefficient means of delivering property tax relief to the Wisconsin homeowners and renters for whom the property tax creates the greatest economic hardships, according to a new analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The brains of people under anesthesia respond to stimuli as they do in the deepest part of sleep – lending credence to a developing theory of consciousness and suggesting a new method to assess loss of consciousness in conditions such as coma.
The long struggle to move the most versatile stem cells from the laboratory to the clinic got another boost with an $8.8 million contract award to the Waisman Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Using a class of drugs being clinically tested to treat other kinds of cancer, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health found that the drugs were the first to stop the latent form of EBV infection from causing disease.
For expectant mothers, catching even a mild case of the flu could stunt brain development in their newborns, according to a new study conducted in rhesus macaques.
The benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation policies are likely to outweigh the near-term costs of implementing those policies, according to a new study.
Many anglers in Wisconsin are unaware of laws designed to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species and protect the state’s lakes and rivers, according to a recent statewide poll.
Most humans are blissfully unaware that we owe our healthful existence to trillions of microbes that make their home in the nooks and crannies of the human body, primarily the gut.
Wisconsin’s two public doctoral research universities will join forces in the first campuswide program to promote collaborative research projects involving faculty at both universities.
Even if you haven’t seen “Avatar,” you may have caught the movie’s trailer on television, heard its characters are blue and 10 feet tall, or know it was directed by James Cameron of “Titanic” and “Terminator” fame. Based on those tidbits, you may have decided you’re dying to see the blockbuster or you’d rather watch paint dry.
As the global nanotechnology industry continues to produce cutting-edge consumer products, the scientific community is leaving a key part of the U.S. public behind when sharing knowledge of this new field of science, according to a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Arizona State University.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created the strongest form of collagen known to science, a stable alternative to human collagen that could one day be used to treat arthritis and other conditions that result from collagen defects.
While much of the promise of stem cells springs from their ability to develop into any cell type in the body, the biological workings that control that maturation process are still largely unknown.