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While it serves many miltary uses, Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy Military Reservation also provides a sanctuary for rare native plants.

A novel form of vitamin D has been shown to grow bone in the lab and in experimental animals, a result that holds promise for the estimated 44 million Americans, mostly post-menopausal women, who suffer from or are at risk for the bone-wasting disease osteoporosis.

Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries. E-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Stretching probably yields no benefits Stretching before exercise, while doing no harm, probably does not reduce the risk of injury or muscle soreness, according to a university family physician and sports medicine specialist who conducted …

More than $300 million has been spent by candidates on television advertising in races for the U.S. House and Senate, as well as in a number of highly competitive, record-spending gubernatorial contests across the nation, according to a new study by a university political scientist.

Emily Stanley, a river ecologist at the Center for Limnology, has found that dam removal allows not just fish and canoes, but also damaging nutrients, to barge through the water system. Results of the study, which focused on dam removal sites along the Baraboo River and Koshkonong Creek in Wisconsin, were recently published in the journal BioScience.

Professor of linguistics Monica Macaulay is recording and documenting the rapidly vanishing Menominee language, a traditionally oral language markedly different from any European counterpart.

Scientists have long searched for triggers that activate ribonucleic acid (RNA), a key component in gene expression. Now, in the Thursday, Sept. 19, issue of the journal Nature, scientists from UW-Madison report that they have found an enzyme that activates RNA, which could lead to new ways of regulating genetic information.

A UW Hospital transplant team has delved into the cutting edge of medical technology by performing Wisconsin’s first pancreatic islet cell procedure.

University researchers and community members all are harvesting the benefits of a university-community agricultural partnership on Madison’s North Side. The university and Friends of Troy Gardens have begun a project dedicated to sustainable agriculture research, and education and outreach at Troy Gardens. The project is led by the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems and funded by a grant from the Kellogg Foundation.

The much-anticipated ceasefire in political television advertising by 2002 candidates across the nation was confirmed in a study released Friday by the Wisconsin Advertising Project at UW-Madison, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

National Geographic this month features a map, “A World Transformed,”depicting human impact on the Earth as detailed by UW-Madison research.

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Advances gives a glimpse of the many significant research projects at the university. Tell us about your discoveries. E-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu. Gene cleans plant’s clock Plants have never impressed anyone with their intelligence, but they do measure the seasons and tell time. After all, a Christmas cactus blooms only in winter and an evening primrose opens …

Scientists have discovered a gene that regulates when plants flower and is critical for keeping a plant’s 24-hour clock running accurately.

Today, fewer fish are banging their heads against these barriers, due in large part to Wisconsin’s efforts to tear down dozens of deteriorating dams. Razing these structures may alleviate many wildlife headaches, but it also may create new problems, according to research from UW-Madison.

In the world of dogs and their humans, Patricia McConnell is a shrink extraordinaire. Like few others, McConnell, an adjunct professor of zoology, can get into the head of a dog and gain some insight into the animal’s thought process. Sadly, most of the minds she’s reading these days belong to aggressive dogs, the growlers and biters that sometimes make chilling headlines as a result of attacks on humans beings.

Developmental biologists have unexpectedly found that the genetics underpinning the formation of limbs and digits in vertebrates is distinctly different than what scientists have believed for nearly 30 years.

A new study offers some good long-term news for working families in the state: family income is up. But other indicators are less positive.

Scientists have made a first step toward a practical atomic-scale memory where atoms would represent the bits of information that make up words, pictures and codes read by computers.