With the help of a long-studied flu virus, an electron microscope and a novel idea of how the virus aligns segments of RNA as it prepares to make virions, the particles a virus creates and sends forth to infect cells, one major puzzle of flu virus replication has been resolved.
Ever since penicillin, a byproduct of a fungal mold, was discovered in 1929, scientists have scrutinized fungi for other breakthrough drugs. As reported Jan. 20 in the Journal of Chemistry and Biology, a team led by a UW-Madison researcher has developed a new method that may speed the ongoing quest for medically useful compounds in fungi.
Stereotypes about who will use online support groups are wrong, according to research at UW-Madison. The researchers found that age, income and education did not predict participation, although minorities were not as active as other users.
A team of researchers at UW-Madison has taken a small but crucial step forward in the ongoing fight against retinal degeneration diseases.
“The Color of Ironâ€, an upcoming show at the Chazen Museum of Art, uses color to foster a greater understanding of the role that iron plays in color in different media, and, by extension, the role that color plays in artistic creation.
Alfred McCoy’s “A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror” will lead the next “World Beyond our Borders” series, sponsored by the International Institute and Borders book store.
With this issue, Wisconsin Week is introducing this feature, in which we’ll ask a faculty or staff member, chosen at random, to give readers a peek into their jobs and make the university, with its thousands of employees, seem a little smaller. Meet our first subject, Karen Thompson, an undergraduate adviser for the Department of …
University Roundtable has announced its schedule for this spring. On Wednesday, Feb. 8, Jonathan Foley of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies will speak about “Living on a Shrinking World: The Challenges for Global Sustainability.” On Wednesday, March 8, Cecilia Ford of the Department of English will speak about “The Extraordinary Precision of Ordinary …
A professor of history at the UW-Madison has authored a book available this month that explores evidence of a 50-year legacy of U.S. government-sponsored forms of psychological torture.
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 UW-Madison.
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,UW-Madison researchers report in today’s issue of Science.
Long before the finishing touches are made to the UW-Madison’s Microbial Sciences Building, a small but significant bit of science has emerged from the hole where the $120 million, 330,000 square-foot structure is emerging.
Scientists have long known that chronic deforestation can spawn a jungle of environmental woes. But now, a study confirms that vanishing forests inflict more than environmental damage: they may cause human diseases, too.
Scientists working at the WiCell Research Institute, a private laboratory affiliated with UW-Madison, have developed a precisely defined stem cell culture system free of animal cells and used it to derived two new human embryonic stem cell lines.
With an equal rate of incidence and mortality-the number of those who get the disease and those who die from it-Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is a brain cancer death sentence. Scientists at UW-Madison are working on a new radiotherapy technique for fighting GBM with the element gadolinium — an approach that might lead to less invasive treatments that offer greater quality of life for patients.
The university community gets reminded – and reminded again – of how difficult and challenging 2005 was on many fronts. But the year also delivered some tremendous gains where it matters most and is recognized the least – in the classrooms and laboratories.
Come January, UW-Madison Professor Ann Hoyt will once more head to the nation of Ghana in Sub-Saharan Africa, to continue her work of documenting consumer cooperatives around the globe.
Two UW-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 (NERI).
A team of UW-Madison scientists suggests that a branch-by-branch account of animal relationships over a vast expanse of time is difficult to reconstruct because early animal evolution occurred in bunches.
A team of Canadian and American scientists working at the UW-Madison Synchrotron Radiation Center reports the first-ever finding of elevated levels of creatine — the newly discovered agent of Alzheimer’s disease – in brain tissue.