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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.

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.

A homegrown software innovation born of “creative laziness” in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at UW-Madison is saving time and money and opening doors to a new world of online survey research.

Organic food sales in the United States have grown 20 percent or more annually for the past decade and remain strong. A new report details the growth of organic agriculture in Wisconsin and the nation, and encourages state investment in this value-added marketing strategy.

As our canine companions get older, a common joint problem could leave many of them stiff in the knee. Fortunately, a new device developed by researchers at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) may help veterinarians catch the problem early – before it results in permanent arthritis.

Viewed from Nobelist Carl Wieman’s perch, the way science is taught in the undergraduate classroom is at a historical crossroads. Like 16th century science, when the tradition of Aristotle was traded in for the newfound ability to measure and quantify nature, science education today is poised to capitalize on new ways of teaching, learning and, critically, measuring results in the classroom.

As mountains of scrap tires continue to rise above the landscape, researchers at UW-Madison have found an environmentally friendly use for them: grind them up and place the rubber bits beneath golf course greens.

In a species of worm where males seem glaringly superfluous, a new study shows that sex may indeed be a beneficial strategy for survival.

The fifth anniversary of biologist James Thomson’s report that stem cells could be isolated, cultured and grown in apparently limitless quantities was marked Oct. 27 with a news conference in Washington, D.C.

A $400,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the globalization of environmental policy has been awarded to Clark Miller, an assistant professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison, and his colleagues at Harvard University.

UW-Madison will partner with the Mental Health Center of Dane County, Inc., to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment services provided to adolescents who have experienced trauma.

A team of scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has shown that new genomic-scale data offers powerful, unprecedented resolution of the evolutionary tree.

Looking at situations through unorthodox intellectual prisms is botanist Tim Allen’s stock in trade. As a theorist specializing in hierarchy and complexity within biological systems, he is the first to admit that, although he may not always ask the right question, at least he will approach a problem by asking a different one.

Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries. E-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Laser test casts green glow The pale, ghostly green pulse of light sometimes seen above Madison is not an omen that aliens are landing. Rather, it is a NASA laser being tested on the Ice, …

The billions of proteins that compose life on Earth remain one of the truly uncharted territories in the biological universe, due mainly to the slow and arduous techniques their exploration requires. Now, a research partnership between UW-Madison and a Japanese university and company aims to develop a technology that may allow scientists to map the shapes and structures of proteins more easily than ever before.

In what could be a boom or a bust for some Antarctic shipping, a massive, 100-mile long iceberg known as B-15A has split in two, satellite photos have confirmed. Monitoring the Antarctic ice using NASA’s Terra satellite, scientists at the UW-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center were among the first to notice the fracture creating two giant icebergs in the Ross Sea, due south of New Zealand.

Plasma physics and astrophysics may sound as far apart to you as the Earth and sun, but the two disciplines have a lot in common. Now, a five-year, $11.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will bring them even closer together.