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Lighting up the lab: Team harnesses light for controlled chemical reaction

April 24, 2014

When chemist Tehshik Yoon looks out his office window, he sees a source of energy to drive chemical reactions. Plants “learned” to synthesize chemicals with sunlight eons ago; Yoon came to the field a bit more recently. But this week, in the journal Science, he and three collaborators detail a way to use sunlight and two catalysts to create molecules that are difficult to make with conventional techniques — a finding that may eventually have implications for drug making and materials science. Read More

Annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium to focus on blood

April 24, 2014

World stem cell leaders will converge on Promega's BioPharmaceutical Technology Center in Fitchburg on April 30 for the 9th Annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium: From Stem Cells to Blood. Read More

Made-in-Wisconsin atom probe assisted dating of oldest piece of earth

April 17, 2014

It's a scientific axiom: big claims require extra-solid evidence. So there were skeptics in 2001 when University of Wisconsin–Madison geoscience professor John Valley dated an ancient crystal found in Australia to 4.4 billion years ago. The date, after all, was only 100 million years after Earth started to solidify from a ball of molten rock. Read More

Hair from infants gives clues about their life in the womb

April 15, 2014

Like rings of a tree, hair can reveal a lot of information about the past. Read More

Two more town hall meetings set on research and graduate education

April 15, 2014

The University Committee invites faculty and staff to present their views on proposed changes to the UW–Madison research and graduate education structure at two additional town hall meetings. Read More

Research team to search for new antibiotics from untapped microbes

April 14, 2014

Facing an imminent global public health crisis, a University of Wisconsin–Madison research team has been awarded up to $16 million from the National Institutes of Health to find new sources of antibiotics to combat the rising number of deadly antibiotic-resistant infections. Read More

Wisconsin research shows green space keeps you from feeling blue

April 11, 2014

If you start feeling better as spring begins pushing up its tender shoots, you might be living proof of a trend discovered in data from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin: The more green space in the neighborhood, the happier people reported feeling. Read More

Scientists firm up origin of cold-adapted yeasts that make cold beer

April 9, 2014

As one of the most widely consumed and commercially important beverages on the planet, one would expect the experts to know everything there is to know about lager beer. Read More

“Your Inner Fish,” with strong UW connections, premieres on PBS

April 8, 2014

A University of Wisconsin–Madison professor wants to help more people get to know their ancestors. Read More

Study helps unravel the tangled origin of ALS

April 3, 2014

By studying nerve cells that originated in patients with a severe neurological disease, a University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher has pinpointed an error in protein formation that could be the root of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Read More

How plants adapt: Calcium waves help the roots tell the shoots

April 3, 2014

For Simon Gilroy, sometimes seeing is believing. In this case, it was seeing the wave of calcium sweep root-to-shoot in the plants the University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of botany is studying that made him a believer. Read More

Monkey caloric restriction study shows big benefit; contradicts earlier study

April 1, 2014

The latest results from a 25-year study of diet and aging in monkeys shows a significant reduction in mortality and in age-associated diseases among those with calorie-restricted diets. The study, begun at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1989, is one of two ongoing, long-term U.S. efforts to examine the effects of a reduced-calorie diet on nonhuman primates. Read More

Winning images reveal the aesthetic side of UW science

March 25, 2014

From the frumpish mug of an oyster toadfish to delicate crystalline “flowers” of cobalt pyrite, 12 winners of the 2014 University of Wisconsin–Madison Cool Science Image contest were announced today, Tuesday, March 24. Read More

‘Stem cell tourism’ takes advantage of patients, says law professor

March 24, 2014

Desperate patients are easy prey for unscrupulous clinics offering untested and risky stem cell treatments, says law and bioethics Professor Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who is studying "stem cell tourism." Read More