“There’s a lot of issues with global warming and climate change, and (petroleum) is a non-renewable resource. It’s going to run out one day,” Barnett said. “If we want to still have paints and coatings in 50 years, we need to find other ways to...
Never heard of Epic? Ask your doctor, because it's their software that handles the private medical records of about 60 percent of the patients in the country (including, probably, yours)....
JangoBio, Fitchburg company based on research by a UW-Madison gerontologist, has created three-dimensional tissue clusters derived from stem cells that can produce ovarian and testicular hormones. The development could help regenerate and replace hormone-producing tissues and reverse the natural decline of sex hormones from aging....
Stemina Biomarker Discovery, Inc., today announced study results showing the high performance of the company’s Cardio quickPredict test in identifying cardiotoxic effects for a large number of well-characterized drugs....
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin has been named a 2020 Champion of Science by The Science Coalition (TSC), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of more than 50 of the nation’s leading public and private research institutions dedicated to highlighting the partnerships between the federal government and America’s...
Today, Prof. Skala leads the Optical Microscopy in Medicine Lab at the Morgridge Institute for Research. Her program is among the most diverse and dynamic on campus, bridging fundamental discovery to translation....
Dianomi previously licensed its core technology, the mineral coated microparticles, from WARF, UW-Madison's tech-transfer arm. The new license expands the technology's use to nucleic acid therapy — using DNA or RNA, or related compounds, to modify or enhance the expression of desired genes....
Cancer diagnostics company Exact Sciences Corp. has more than doubled the capital investment and job creation numbers it proposed under an agreement with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., according to documents obtained by the Milwaukee Business Journal per a public records request....
"We can use bioacoustics almost as a stethoscope," said Burivalova, an assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology at UW-Madison. "We can try to listen to the vital signs of the forest and realize is the forest maybe recovering after human presence or human exploitation...
“In its report last month, Brookings placed Madison at the top of its list of growth centers that, with some more federal help, could start to rival the innovation-heavy coastal cities.” (Benjamin Miller, assistant vice chancellor for government and corporate affairs at UW–Madison)...
‘Lucky Dog’ Scout and UW School of Veterinary Medicine star in WeatherTech Super Bowl commercial...
“If we leave things as they are, it’ll be 2080 before we have at least one woman on half of the patent applications,” Gottwald said. “Ninety-six percent of applications have at least one man named on them, so getting women on 50 percent is a...