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Geneticist to share grant to study corn genome
The National Science Foundation has awarded $10 million to a team of researchers headed by geneticist John Doebley to study the molecular and functional diversity of the maize (corn) genome.
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Shawn Francis Peters, coordinator, Odyssey Project, Integrated Liberal Studies Program; “The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights,” University Press of Kansas, 2003.
Researchers investigate ways to thwart terrorism
In an effort to secure our country from future terrorist attacks, researchers at UW–Madison are developing techniques not only to prioritize possible targets, but also to develop effective risk-reduction and resource-allocation strategies.
Rice centromere, supposedly quiet genetic domain, surprises
Probing the last genomic frontier of higher organisms, an international team of scientists has succeeded in sequencing a little understood - but critical - genetic domain in rice.
Wisconsin engineers devise cutting-edge method to cut cheese
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.
Winter weather turns on flowering gene
In four months, when flower buds spring up from the ground, you may wonder how plants know it's time to bloom. This question has baffled plant biologists for years. Now, scientists at UW–Madison have an answer: a gene that functions as an alarm clock to rouse certain plants from a vegetative state in the winter to a flowering state in the spring.
Stem cells illuminate early stages of human development
A team from the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center has taken some of the first critical steps to putting stem cells to use to understand early development and maternal and fetal health.
Researchers identify key player in respiratory memory
By studying the "memory" of the respiratory system, a group of researchers from the UW–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.
Tissue digester to help dispose of CWD-infected materials
A new $900,000 state-of-the-art mobile tissue digester promises a safe and efficient way to dispose of as many as 15,000 samples of deer tissue to be tested in the coming months by the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for the presence of chronic wasting disease.
Dane County businesses expect economy to improve in 2004
Dane County businesses are predicting increases in revenues and profits in the coming year, according to a survey sponsored by the UW–Madison School of Business and First Business Bank.
History of frog deformities suggests emerging disease
A historical examination of amphibian deformities - frogs with extra legs growing out of the abdomen, for example - suggests that these aberrations are not a new phenomenon, but part of an emerging disease that could jeopardize the survival of these organisms.
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Research generates reliable energy source during outages
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 UW–Madison.
Easily paralyzed flies provide clues to neurodegeneration
With a slight tweak of temperature, geneticist Barry Ganetzky's flies drop like, well, flies.
Brain study shows some animals crave exercise
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 Dec. 1 issue of the journal Behavioral Neuroscience.
Forum examines Wisconsin’s smart growth law
A group of 12 students at UW–Madison is looking at Wisconsin's smart growth law, which requires every local government in the state to adopt a community plan by 2010.
UW receives grant to boost Wisconsin’s plastics industry
UW-Madison has received a $600,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help enhance sustainable economic growth in the state's plastics industry cluster.
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Rachel Feldhay Brenner, professor of Hebrew and Semitic studies, "Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers Re-visioning Culture," UW Press, 2003.
Hospital performs first live donor paired kidney exchange
UW Hospital surgeons successfully performed Wisconsin's first "live donor paired kidney exchange" on Nov. 7, one of a handful done in the United States.
Dioxin, other chemicals killed Lake Ontario trout
Researchers have determined that dioxin and similar toxic chemicals were high enough in Lake Ontario to kill virtually every lake trout that hatched there from the late 1940s to the late 1980s.