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Bio-reader brings major recognition to Sandstrom
Electrical engineer Perry Sandstrom's invention, the SynchroGene Reader, represents a simpler, faster, more cost-effective way of analyzing hybridization microarrays, otherwise known as DNA chips or biochips. Perry Sandstrom, an electrical engineer for the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics, takes a break at his basement lab where he developed new DNA-chip-reading technology. Photo: Jim Beal
Economists to brief business leaders
Business leaders will get up-to-date insights on these issues and predictions for the coming months from experts at an upcoming conference.
Engineers create new avenues for independence
Assistive robots, voice control, sensory substitution, automatic locks, lights, climate control and superior handling sound like features that come standard on any sport-utility vehicle. But thanks to UW-CREATe, an innovative new research team based in the College of Engineering, wheelchairs and other assistive devices may soon have them, too.
Latin jazzmaster is spring artist
Legendary Latin Jazz teacher and composer John Santos headlines a season of outstanding performances and a semester of learning about the roots of "America's Music."
Center combines traditional, complementary techniques
David Rakel, the medical director of UW Health's new Center for Integrative Medicine, spends a lot of time explaining the term 'integrative medicine' to the public and to his patients. Just don't call it 'alternative.'
New tools help farmers manage fertilizer
Farmers in Wisconsin may soon have a powerful new tool to help them make decisions about fertilizer that increase yields and control runoff, thanks to university researchers.
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Justice project focuses on healing, not punishment
Helping improve criminal justice may be as basic as changing the perspective from which crime is viewed, says law professor Walter Dickey.
Professor: to stay active, exercise with a purpose
More than 30 years of data show that, on average, half the people who take up exercise quit after several months, says Bill Morgan, professor of kinesiology and director of UW–Madison's Exercise Psychology Laboratory. After a year, only 25 percent have kept up the routine.
Stem cell deal reached
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Geron Corporation today announced an agreement for the commercialization of human embryonic stem cell technology.
Hospital receives grant to increase organ donation
The UW Hospital and Clinics Organ Procurement Organization has received a $300,000 grant to conduct research regarding organ donation.
Short-circuiting microbe chat
Scientists have learned that bacteria use an integrated communications system to sense, retrieve and process the chemical signals they depend on to find nutrients or flee from danger.
Don’t discount diversity in the insect world
'To call every insect a bug is just wrong,' says the entomology museum curator
Alloy advances announced
By adding small quantities of elements such as lead to certain materials, scientists have discovered they can make a more versatile aluminum alloy that's stronger by weight than steel.
Prof develops new pavement standards
Longstanding asphalt specifications may fall by the wayside in light of a new report by civil and environmental engineering professor Hussian Bahia.
Antibiotic may be a potential therapy for MS
A common antibiotic, long used to treat infections in humans, may have potential as a treatment for multiple sclerosis, a devastating disease of the central nervous system, according to a new study published today, Dec. 21, in the Annals of Neurology.
Creating new avenues for intelligent independence
Assistive robots, voice control, sensory substitution, automatic locks, lights, climate control and superior handling sound like features that come standard on any sport-utility vehicle. But thanks to UW-CREATe, an innovative new research team based in the College of Engineering, wheelchairs and other assistive devices may soon have them,
Professor uncovers hidden history in obscure text
Step into the office of Jacques Lezra, professor of English and Spanish, on the seventh floor of Helen C. White Hall, and you feel you are standing in an unusual used bookstore. Confined by crowded shelves of musty paperbacks, you can't imagine how someone fit them all into the small room.
Engineering students join clean snowmobile challenge
While the snow has yet to fly, 15 mechanical engineering students are already gearing up for the snowmobile season.
Microbe genes help scientists reconstruct animal origins
Without the help of fossils or any other record from the distant past, scientists have identified what they believe represents a common ancestor of all animals on Earth, a microscopic organism with key genetic traits that, until now, have been found only in true animals.