Stories indexed under: Biosciences

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  • Study: Earlier crop plantings may curb future yields Oct. 4, 2006 In an ongoing bid to grow more corn, farmers in the U.S. Corn Belt are planting seeds much earlier today than they did 30 years ago, a new study has found. Poring over three decades of agricultural records, Christopher Kucharik, an associate scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered that farmers in 12 U.S. states now put corn in the ground around two weeks earlier than they did during the late 1970s.
  • Intersection of business and research explored at CEO Summit Oct. 3, 2006 Three distinguished University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists will meet with corporate chief executives who graduated from the university to brief them on the business applications and marketability of their research on Saturday, Oct. 7.
  • Stem Cells 101: Meet Wisconsin’s research leaders Oct. 3, 2006 Southeastern Wisconsin residents will have a unique opportunity on Oct. 10 to hear about the promises and limitations of stem cell research directly from the Wisconsin professors and researchers working in the field.
  • ‘Failed’ experiment produces a bacterial Trojan horse Oct. 3, 2006 A failed experiment turned out to be anything but for bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz. As he was puzzling out why what should have been a routine procedure wouldn't work, he made a discovery that led to the creation of a new biological tool for destroying bacterial pathogens - one that doesn't appear to trigger antibiotic resistance.
  • New angiogenesis finding may help fight cancer growth Sept. 28, 2006 A researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has discovered a new part of the complicated mechanism that governs the formation of blood vessels, or angiogenesis.
  • Computer scientist spearheads $30 million ‘Open Science Grid’ Sept. 25, 2006 University of Wisconsin-Madison computer scientists will play a central role in the expansion of a national "Open Science Grid" (OSG), an interconnected computing infrastructure that provides scientists with a massive infusion of computing power and storage capacity to solve large, data-intensive challenges in science.
  • Noted ethanol critic to lecture Sept. 25, 2006 Tad Patzek, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California- Berkeley who is distinguished both for his research on oil field peaking and depletion and for his often controversial, outspoken opposition to corn-based ethanol as a replacement for oil, will give the talk, “The environmental impacts of the corn-ethanol cycle,’”on the UW-Madison campus Oct. 5.
  • Architects chosen to design Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Sept. 20, 2006 Uihlein Wilson Architects of Milwaukee, together with Ballinger of Philadelphia, will design the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Morgridge Institute for Research on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, officials announced today.
  • National stem cell bank announces addition of new cell lines Sept. 19, 2006 The National Stem Cell Bank has expanded its offering of human embryonic stem cell lines to include cells from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), it announced today (Sept. 19). With the addition of the UCSF lines, the National Stem Cell Bank will soon have on deposit 13 of the 21 cell lines on the federal registry.
  • Mercury pollution threatens health worldwide, scientists say Aug. 11, 2006 Mercury pollution can threaten the health of people, fish and wildlife everywhere, from industrial sites to remote corners of the planet, but reducing mercury use and emissions would lessen those threats, according to a declaration ratified today (Aug. 11) at an international conference on mercury pollution.
  • Genetic snooze button governs timing of spring flowers Aug. 9, 2006 University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Richard Amasino has revealed studies that have begun to peel back some of the mystery of how plants pace the seasons to bloom at the optimal time of year.
  • Seltzer named interim director of Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Aug. 8, 2006 Marsha Mailick Seltzer, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center and an internationally recognized scholar of developmental disabilities, has been named interim director of the new Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
  • MATC, UW collaborate on biodiesel fuel reactor Aug. 7, 2006 Madison Area Technical College today dedicated its new biodiesel reactor, built in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to produce motor fuel blended from waste vegetable oil and methanol.
  • Gabriela Cezar’s stem cell research targets birth defects and cancer Aug. 4, 2006 After conducting research at Scotland's Roslin Institute (birthplace of Dolly the cloned sheep) and creating in-vitro models of obesity and Parkinson's Disease for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Gabriela Cezar has returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Study shows hope for ridding lakes of clawed invader July 31, 2006 A University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows that the rusty crayfish, long seen as a bully in Wisconsin lakes, may be vulnerable to a "double whammy" of intensive trapping and predator fish manipulation to the point where it may be possible to rid lakes of the animal that has vexed scientists, anglers and conservation agencies alike for decades.
  • Study reveals how attention deficit drugs work June 26, 2006 Although millions depend on medications such as Ritalin to quell symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), scientists have struggled to pinpoint how the drugs work in the brain.
  • E. coli work identifies new keys to regulation of bacterial gene expression June 16, 2006 The cellular process of transcription, in which the enzyme RNA polymerase constructs chains of RNA from information contained in DNA, depends upon previously underappreciated sections of both the DNA promoter region and RNA polymerase, according to work done with the bacterium E. coli and published today (June 16) in the journal Cell by a team of bacteriologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Diet, aging study gains $7.9 million grant June 13, 2006 A pioneering long-term study of the links between diet and aging in monkeys will continue through 2011 with the help of a new $7.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
  • New approach allows closer look at smoker lungs May 30, 2006 Aided by a powerful imaging technique, scientists have discovered they can detect smoking-related lung damage in healthy smokers who otherwise display none of the telltale signs of tobacco use.
  • Dedication ceremony honors revered freshwater biologist May 8, 2006 A dedication ceremony at the Center for Limnology (CFL) today (May 8) is honoring the vision and achievements of a late UW-Madison scientist by naming a laboratory after him. The newly named facility - the Arthur Davis Hasler Laboratory for Limnology - has been at the core of education and UW-Madison research in the aquatic sciences for more than four decades.