The natural world has been medicine’s most effective arsenal, providing life-saving antibiotics and our most potent anti-cancer drugs. Now, with help from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a consortium of UW-Madison scientists will embark on a five-year program of drug discovery by copying and improving nature’s designs to develop new medicines to treat colon, breast, cervical and pancreatic cancer.
For the first time in its 40-year history, the World Congress of Applied Linguistics will be held in the United States, specifically at UW-Madison, on Sunday-Friday, July 24-29 at the Pyle Center and the Monona Terrace.
Delving deep into the molecular subtleties of a strain of mice engineered to age rapidly, scientists have found that an accumulation of genetic mutations prompts a cascade of programmed cell death that seems to underpin the aging process.
Do diamonds really last forever? That’s the hope of UW-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.
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. It certainly was an exciting time to be a graduate student.
In November, representatives from UW-Madison will attend the inauguration of the southern hemisphere’s largest telescope, the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). UW-Madison is one of nearly a dozen international institutions that partnered with the South African government to build SALT, including universities in Russia, Poland, New Zealand, Germany and the United States.
Meet at least ten new people. That’s the charge awaiting nearly 650 undergraduate students attending the 2005 Summer Research Opportunity (SROP) Conference, presented by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and hosted this year by the Graduate School.
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. UW-Madison engineers have created a spray cooling method that early tests show can remove heat at rates up to three times faster than other spray techniques.
Scientists at UW-Madison and around the country will report new findings during the Second International Chronic Wasting Disease Symposium here on July 12-14. The symposium comes at a time when the known range of CWD seems to be swelling from its relatively small, endemic home in parts of Wyoming and Colorado toward the east, where deer populations are denser.
More than three dozen experts from 11 nations will be meeting at the UW-Madison Fluno Center for Executive Education this week to discuss the status of mercury as a global pollutant. Seven experts have agreed to be available for media interviews from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, July 14, in Room 203 of the Fluno Center, 601 University Ave. Their areas of expertise are detailed later in this release.
Boosting levels of two critical proteins that normally shut down during Huntington’s disease, researchers at UW-Madison and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have cured fruit flies of the genetic, neurodegenerative condition.
With the London terror attacks triggering renewed discussion about homeland security, reporters may be interested in a year-old federal project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that is helping the United States prioritize possible terror targets and develop effective risk-reduction and resource-allocation strategies.
A grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School’s Technology Transfer Program will fund a project that uses computer mapping and statistical modeling to identify likely habitat of the endangered Karner blue butterfly. The project could help Wisconsin land managers save thousands of dollars on field surveys required to protect the rare insect.
Reporters seeking local perspectives on today’s series of terror attacks in London may consider the following experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Faculty on this list can offer insight on terrorism and on the political, economic and diplomatic implications of the attacks occurring during the start of the G8 Summit.
Researchers at the Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have received a $20 million award to fund Phase II of the Protein Structure Initiative over the next five years.
To the ordinary eye, the world’s oldest restored tall-grass prairie is an idyllic postcard picture. Long, slender grasses sway in the breeze, and playful blackbirds swoop everywhere.
Ruthanne Chun, a clinical veterinary oncologist who joined the staff this month of the School of Veterinary Medicine, is dedicated to finding new and better ways to treat animals with cancer.
Although it has taken just 60 years for humans to put many freshwater lakes on the eutrophication fast track, a new study shows their recovery may take a thousand years under the best of circumstances.
By devising a novel way to package the genome of a common human tumor virus – the virus that causes common warts, genital warts and that is implicated in prevalent cancers – scientists have paved the way for making the pathogen far more accessible to biomedical science.
In the time it takes to read this sentence, your fingernail will have grown one nanometer. That’s one-billionth of a meter and it represents the scale at which electronics must be built if the march toward miniaturization is to continue. Reporting in the June 3 issue of the journal Science, an international team of researchers shows how control over materials on this tiny scale can be extended to create complex patterns important in the production of nano-electronics.