Stories indexed under: Biosciences

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  • Proposed hunt poorly designed, says UW wolf expert Feb. 20, 2012
  • Arboretum director to return to teaching Feb. 16, 2012 Kevin McSweeney, a University of Wisconsin-Madison soil scientist who has directed the university's internationally famous Arboretum since 2004, announced this week that he is relinquishing that administrative post and returning to the faculty.
  • UW–Madison names finalists for Nelson Institute director Feb. 14, 2012 UW-Madison has named three finalists for the director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
  • Forest and Hawks named 2012 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Fellows Feb. 10, 2012 Katrina Forest, professor of bacteriology, and John Hawks, associate chair of Anthropology, have been selected by the Institute for Biology Education as Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Faculty Fellows for 2012.
  • Study shows calories drive earlier puberty Feb. 8, 2012 Environmental pollutants, eating habits, lack of exercise and genetic traits have all been raised as possible causes of earlier puberty onset in girls in recent years. Now we may now know why: It's the calories, as reported by Ei Terasawa, Joe Kurian, Ricki Colman and colleagues at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.
  • Sturgeon "thunder" has roots in biological process Feb. 7, 2012 Research into the mysterious sounds that lake sturgeon produce resumes in April, or whenever the water warms to a temperature conducive for fish spawning, which is the best time to experience sturgeon “thunder.”
  • Evolution’s oddities are focus of Darwin Day Feb. 7, 2012 The annual celebration of Charles Darwin’s birthday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will highlight the evolutionary significance of strange life forms, including the octopus and enormous flowers.
  • Smallest tools could give biggest results in bone repair Feb. 6, 2012 When William Murphy works with some of the most powerful tools in biology, he thinks about making tools that can fit together. These constructions sound a bit like socket wrenches, which can be assembled to turn a half-inch nut in tight quarters, or to loosen a rusted-tight one-inch bolt using a very persuasive lever.
  • Neurons from stem cells could replace mice in botulinum test Feb. 3, 2012 Using lab-grown human neurons, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an effective assay for detecting botulinum neurotoxin, the agent widely used to cosmetically smooth the wrinkles of age and, increasingly, for an array of medical disorders ranging from muscle spasticity to loss of bladder control.
  • Photo: Language learning lab The Waisman Center: Decades later, what would Harry think? Jan. 30, 2012 Last fall, the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison bid successfully for the same National Institutes of Health core grant that the late Harry Waisman first won 45 years ago.
  • Flu researchers pause for thought Jan. 20, 2012 The authors of two H5N1-related papers, to be published in Nature and Science respectively, today announce in those journals their decision to call a voluntary 60-day pause on research involving highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses leading to the generation of viruses that are more transmissible in mammals.
  • Researcher find gene critical to sense of smell in fruit fly Jan. 20, 2012 UW-Madison researchers have discovered that a gene called distal-less is critical to the fly's ability to receive, process and respond to smells.
  • Researchers outline food security, climate change road map Jan. 20, 2012 While last month's meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa, made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt to climate change and reduce agriculture's climate footprint, a group of international agriculture experts urges scientists to lay the groundwork for more decisive action on global food security in environmental negotiations in 2012.
  • New approach to combat intractable bacterial infections Jan. 20, 2012 Bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz specializes in developing antimicrobial technologies that one day may help replace antibiotics—and save lives—as the power of our antibiotics arsenal wanes.
  • Study pinpoints Ritalin’s influence Jan. 5, 2012 Millions of individuals diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are helped by methylphenidate, the stimulant better known as Ritalin. Now researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have pinpointed the area of the brain in which Ritalin does its work.
  • UW–Madison sends two to elite epidemic-investigation training Dec. 20, 2011 Two people trained at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine have been chosen for a highly competitive federal program that hones the skills needed to investigate epidemics.
  • David Krakauer nurtures scientific collaboration Dec. 1, 2011 Education and research are splintering into new specialties at an unsustainable rate, according to David Krakauer.
  • Discovery building marks first anniversary with Gold LEED Nov. 30, 2011 When the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery celebrates its first birthday this Friday, Dec. 2 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, visitors can learn a new "first" about the building while taking a behind-the-scenes "green" tour or sharing locally sourced cake with Bucky.
  • Psychopaths' brains show difference in structure, function Nov. 22, 2011 Images of prisoners' brains show important differences between those who are diagnosed as psychopaths and those who aren't, according to a new study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
  • Image: virus New evidence links virus to brain cancer Nov. 22, 2011 Tilting the scales in an ongoing debate, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found new evidence that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is associated with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the brain cancer that killed Sen. Edward Kennedy.