UW-Madison researchers are asking south central Wisconsin deer hunters participating in the fall hunt to refrain from shooting animals with radio collars. The collared animals have been part of an intensive survey of deer behavior and movement and research results from the study promise scientists and wildlife managers better insight into how chronic wasting disease (CWD) is spreading across Wisconsin’s landscape.
Using an electronic pruner is more efficient than using a manual pruner, because it reduces hand fatigue and is faster.
More than 1.5 million drivers nationwide last year collided with deer on roadways around the country, and the costs related to this growing problem total more than $1 billion each year. On Oct. 24-25, nearly 70 researchers, administrators, engineers and ecologists from 20 states, Canada and Japan will meet in Madison to present findings and set a strategic agenda for deer-vehicle crash research, funding, technology transfer and education.
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 UW-Madison researchers.
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.
A tool normally used to improve stainless steel and other metal alloys has now found application to a decidedly non-metallic substance: protein.
Built in 1960, the university’s 1 megawatt reactor is about 1/3000 the size of a commercial reactor and is used for education, research and educational outreach missions involving other universities, emergency responders, school groups and scouts. (Photo: Michael Forster Rothbart) About the reactor Completed in 1960, the University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor is a fission …
For nearly 50 years, the research reactor at UW-Madison has been operated and maintained in a consistently safe and secure manner. Public research universities are by their nature open scholarly environments where knowledge is shared, and the research reactor lab at UW-Madison is no exception.
A new housing development in Sun Prairie, Wis., is giving UW-Madison researchers a chance to test whether septic systems cause bacteria in groundwater to become resistant to antibiotics.
The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries will host their semiannual used book sale Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 12-15, in 116 Memorial Library. The sale features a wide variety of donated books, journals and magazines in the sciences and humanities with special collections of art books, natural history, urban planning and women’s studies.
The Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison has won designation as one of three Area Poverty Research Centers nationally by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The primordial soup cooked up by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s John Yin is a thin one indeed: Besides an amino acid, it contains just copper and chloride.
The United States must confront the alarmingly high federal budget and current account deficits, according to a new report written for the Council on Foreign Relations in New York by Menzie Chinn, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of public affairs.
Nimblegen Systems is the first Madison company to benefit from the Oct. 3, 2005 announcement by the National Institutes of Health to base the National Stem Cell Bank at the WiCell Research Institute.
The National Institute of Nursing Research has awarded two grants totaling $2.8 million to the School of Nursing to develop interventions designed to improve patient health.
Fall 1991 found Francine Hirsch entering the Ph.D. program in history at Princeton, just as unprecedented change was unfolding in the former Soviet Union. Watching the Soviet Union dissolve, Hirsch elected to study the processes surrounding its formation some 70 years earlier. She found that once in power, the Bolsheviks knew next to nothing about …
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.
The WiCell Research Institute has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the federal government’s first and only National Stem Cell Bank (NSCB), it was announced today at a news conference in Madison.
Humans have cultivated potatoes for millennia, but there has been great controversy about the ubiquitous vegetable’s origins. This week, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, a team led by a USDA potato taxonomist stationed at UW-Madison has for the first time demonstrated a single origin in southern Peru for the cultivated potato.
UW-Madison biochemists have developed an approach that allows them to measure with unprecedented accuracy the strengths of hydrogen bonds in a protein. The scientists were then able to predict the function of different versions of the protein based on structural information, a novel outcome that was published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.