Real personal income growth in Wisconsin in the 1990s surpassed the rate of growth in the nation by 24 percent, according to a study by Jon Udell, the Irwin Maier Professor of Business at the UW-Madison School of Business.
A team of scientists headed by Frederick Blattner of the E. coli Genome Project in the Laboratory of Genetics at UW-Madison has determined the complete genome sequence of the E. coli bacterium, it was reported in the Sept. 5 issue of the journal Science.
Some 600 or 700 million years ago, before animal life made a sudden evolutionary shift and diverged into nearly all the major animal divisions we know from fossils, primitive animals were inventing the genes that would make it all possible.
Chronic high blood pressure can be linked to sleep apnea, researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medical School have found.
A $4.8 million equipment grant from Intel Corp. to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will help expand the arc of ‘Condor,’ a UW-inspired program that turns idle desktop computers into powerful research tools.
Rajit Gadh wants to unshackle design engineers from the mouse and the keyboard, giving them an approach to computer design as natural as chatting with a colleague.
A critical step in communication between cells that promotes such things as bone formation, limb growth, and the development of other critical tissues, has been found by a team of researchers from UW-Madison.
By changing the composition of fish populations in a lake, scientists have found a switch by which the flow of carbon between lakes and the atmosphere can be turned on, off, or reversed.
Researchers at UW-Madison have found that limiting calorie intake later in life can stall some of the muscle deterioration that normally accompanies aging.
UW-Madison food scientist Jeff Malison and his colleagues are developing methods to raise same sex or sterile fish populations that will result in greater yields for walleye and perch farmers.
UW-Madison agricultural economists Edward Jesse, Brad Barham and Tom Cox recently travelled to Argentina to assess the country’s growing milk industry. Their conclusion: Anyone with plans to export U.S. dairy products better keep one eye on Argentina.
People with undiagnosed sleep apnea may be at greater risk for automobile accidents, researchers at UW Medical School have found.
Researchers from UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are working together to try to determine how fishing and cattle grazing can coexist around trout streams.
Conjugated linoleic acid, a fatty acid found in dairy products and other animal fats, has many beneficial biological effects.
Some small farms in Wisconsin may soon become antibody factories, raising laying hens that produce growth-stimulating antibodies in their egg yolks.
A University of Wisconsin Medical School researcher and his collaborators can now explain a cellular defect that causes enlarged hearts to contract weakly.
Many people who suffer from bipolar disorder, or Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medical School now believe they understand why.
Should the discovery of a world in a grain of sand elude you, Richard Ralston suggests you continue the search in a postage stamp.
In the full-throttle quest to make smaller, faster and better computer chips, engineer Max Lagally is exploring what may be the final frontier: Building them one atom at a time.
Ceramic brings to mind the simple stuff of plates and pottery, yet it may work wonders in the complex world of environmental cleanup, from filtering pollution to degrading hazardous chemicals.