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UW cancer center one of two sites selected for clinical trial of cancer drug
The UW Comprehensive Cancer Center has been chosen as one of two sites in the nation to conduct human tests of endostatin, a promising potential cancer treatment that seems to work in part by disrupting the growth of blood vessels that nourished the tumors.
Endostatin prospective patient information
Information for prospective patients of the endostatin clinical trial at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Acid linked to soil aging
Thirty-seven years of data collected from a plot at UW–Madison's Arlington agricultural research station is yielding alarming results: acidification from excess fertilizer is wearing out the soil.
Detector in polar ice to hunt for neutrinos
This winter, after an extensive shakedown period, the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array or AMANDA, a novel telescope set kilometers deep in the ice at the South Pole, began its search for the ghost-like cosmic neutrino.
Pesticide, fertilizer mixes linked to range of health problems
The natural mix of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, such as occurs when agricultural chemicals seep into groundwater, may have a broad range of effects on human and animal health, a new study shows.
Guide offers tips for managing urban geese
Scott Craven, extension wildlife ecologist at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, has co-authored a 42-page guide that describes legal, effective ways of persuading problem geese to go elsewhere.
Divining the matter-antimatter puzzle
Using the world's highest-energy proton beam, three UW–Madison scientists were among 85 researchers whose recent experiments helped peel away some of the mystery surrounding the relationship between matter and antimatter.
UW researcher says school culture can be toxin – or tonic
The culture of a school - a web of values, traditions and symbols - can be toxin or tonic for education reform. Ignoring this powerful variable, however, can be a fatal mistake in reform attempts.
Volunteers sought for study of autism, families
A new study at UW–Madison's Waisman Center focusing on autism and family life is recruiting Wisconsin participants.
Prescription medication boosts success in quitting smoking
Smokers taking the medication bupropion were nearly twice as likely to have quit smoking one year later than those receiving patches alone or a placebo, according to a new national study published by UW Medical School researchers.
UW expert makes sense of weird weather
La Niña may get the attention, but if forecasts of unusually wild weather this spring come true, lesser-known forces like "zonal" jet streams and "Bermuda highs" will be responsible.
Satellite laser to take the pulse of West Antarctic Ice Sheet
By shining a laser from space onto the Antarctic and Greenland, scientists may soon peel away some of the mystery surrounding the fate of the massive ice sheets that, through natural fluctuation or human-induced climate change, could drastically alter the levels of the world's oceans.
UW research fuels growth in spin-off, startup companies
Research at the university has fueled a swift rise in new technology-based business ventures in Wisconsin over the past five years, according to a recent study of spin-off and startup companies.
Race matters
A new study on race and medicine may sadden and anger UW Medical School's Vanessa Northington Gamble, but it doesn't surprise her. Professionally and personally, she knows all too well that skin color and cultural background figure in medicine, as in every other aspect of American life.
Perception is reality for artificial intelligence expert
Like most computer scientists, Pawan Sinha is drawn to the challenge of making computers smaller, faster and smarter, but he's taking his lessons from the ultimate computational machine: the human brain.
Scientists discover key cog in receptor that governs ripening
Digging deep into the protein molecules that govern ripening and aging in plants, scientists have found an ion of copper -- and a genetic link to some of the oldest life forms on the planet.
Fauna versus flora
Like Aldo Leopold before him, UW–Madison botanist Don Waller is about to take an unpopular stand on Wisconsin's booming deer herd.
For Leopold, radical measures of control took a toll
Some 50 years ago, Aldo Leopold, UW–Madison professor of wildlife ecology and environmental icon, sounded the first alarm about Wisconsin's looming overabundance of deer.
Research describes human origins debate before Darwin
When Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was first published in 1859, the intellectual and spiritual controversy that colors nearly any discussion of where humans come from was already a two-decade-old phenomenon in the United States.
Quality child care can carry social benefits for kids
If the quality is there, children in all varieties of child care show greater confidence with peers and more compliance with adults, according to one of the most expansive studies ever of child care in America.