Size does matter when it comes to genome sequencing in the animal kingdom, as a team of researchers at the Morgridge Institute recently illustrated when assembling the sequences for two new reference genomes — one from the world’s largest mammal and one from one of...
A hotbed of the health care, information technology and manufacturing industries, Madison has steadily welcomed new residents over the past decade and is growing to accommodate and entertain these transplants. ...
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation recently spotlighted the breakthrough as a “top licensing prospect” among UW-Madison health inventions. The protein, called LRRC10, was discovered by researchers Ahmed Mahmoud, Timothy Kamp and Youngsook Lee, who specialize in heart development and cardiac disease....
New research from the Weeks Lab in the Department of Biochemistry opens the door for scientists to explore cell death, a critical biochemical process, with greater ease. Here’s the rundown on professor Amy Weeks and her lab’s recent research and paper....
UW–Madison researchers are at work on every continent, recording collisions between neutrinos in Antarctic ice more than 9,000 miles away, following the path of disease transmission such as Zika and Ebola in West Africa, recovering and identifying the bodies of missing U.S. military service members...
New Provost Charles Isbell will help UW–Madison define itself in a brave new world....
Randy Bartels, a biomedical imaging investigator at the Morgridge Institute for Research, received a Deep Tissue Phase 2 Frontiers of Imaging award on Feb. 13 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to develop a new approach to deep tissue imaging....
Researchers can engineer cells to express new genes and produce specific proteins, giving the cells new parts to work with. But, it’s much harder to provide cells with instructions on how to organize and use those new parts. Now, new tools from University of Wisconsin–Madison...
At the Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting on Friday, Feb. 9, experts gathered to discuss the university’s strategy for maximizing federal funding through burgeoning public-private partnerships, a crucial component of the national push for innovation and economic development....
The plan represents the most comprehensive environmental sustainability initiative in UW–Madison’s history and will advance the university’s research and education missions while also making campus a living laboratory for sustainable practices....
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to recruit up to 150 new faculty members over the next three to five years for a research initiative focused on artificial intelligence....
It’s an achievement with important implications for scientists studying the brain and working on treatments for a broad range of neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases....
Video: Lisa Johnson, BioForward Wisconsin CEO, on what’s next with federal designation, state funding....
Simon Gilroy and his lab are no strangers to sending plants into space. And, at the end of January, the University of Wisconsin–Madison botany professor and his team will be doing it again for their sixth experiment with NASA on the International Space Station, this...
Dr. Howard Bailey, director of the Madison-based cancer treatment and research organization, spoke this week during a meeting of the Wisconsin Technology Council’s Innovation Network. He emphasized the progress being made in understanding and developing more effective treatments for the disease, as well as new...
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have identified a promising new target for treatments that could help the millions of people worldwide who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease and related colorectal cancers....
Federal officials have announced nearly $640,000 in new funding for a Wisconsin-based project aimed at helping farmers markets reach new customers. The national nonprofit Farmers Market Coalition and UW-Madison were selected for this funding by the USDA Agricultural and Food Research Initiative grant program....
At the Morgridge Institute, the Stewart Computational Biology Group is developing text mining tools to help researchers search and find relevant information within the PubMed database, with more than 35 million peer-reviewed papers from biomedical publications, more quickly....
The Wisconsin HardTech Accelerator, located in the heart of Madison, is uniquely positioned to serve the vibrant startup ecosystem of Wisconsin. The program promises to offer an intensive, hands-on experience focusing on advanced product development, market readiness, and strategic growth....
The quest for perfection and a thirst for constant learning have driven Joe Li to make cutting-edge and highly customizable microscopy a reality for research teams around the world....