Stories indexed under: Biosciences

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• 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.
• 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.
• Hydrogen peroxide provides clues to immunity, wound healing, tumor biology Nov. 22, 2011 Hydrogen peroxide isn't just that bottled colorless liquid in the back of the medicine cabinet that's used occasionally for cleaning scraped knees and cut fingers. It's also a natural chemical in the body that rallies at wound sites, jump-starting immune cells into a series of events.
• Implanted neurons, grown in the lab, take charge of brain circuitry Nov. 21, 2011 Among the many hurdles to be cleared before human embryonic stem cells can achieve their therapeutic potential is determining whether or not transplanted cells can functionally integrate into target organs or tissues.
• Researchers discover possible key to degenerative nerve diseases Nov. 16, 2011 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and collaborators have discovered a powerful new protein in the eye of the fruit fly that may shed light on blinding diseases and other sensory problems in humans.
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• Biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, whose UW work earned the Nobel Prize, dies Nov. 11, 2011 Biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, who received the Nobel Prize for research he conducted while at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Wednesday, Nov. 9 in Concord, Mass. at age 89.
• Study evaluates bat deaths near wind turbines Oct. 31, 2011 It's something of an ecological murder mystery - countless numbers of bats are turning up dead near wind farms. But what is killing them?
• Microscope will give UW researchers powerful view of molecular structures Oct. 27, 2011 A successful campus-wide partnership will bring to the University of Wisconsin–Madison a powerful new electron microscope equipped to produce high-resolution, three-dimensional images of a wide range of biological samples.
• Fungus causes deadly bat disease: last doubts removed Oct. 26, 2011 Scientists have proven that the fungus Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome, a fast-spreading and highly lethal disease of bats.
• UW-Madison global fishery expert wins prestigious fellowship Oct. 17, 2011 Peter McIntyre, an assistant professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has won an $850,000, five-year Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
• Research explores virus movement in Madison groundwater Oct. 9, 2011 According to the conventional wisdom, drinking water taken from a deep aquifer protected by a semi-permeable layer of rock should be protected from many contaminants, including viruses.
• Climate change could drive native fish out of Wisconsin waters Aug. 16, 2011 The cisco, a key forage fish found in Wisconsin's deepest and coldest bodies of water, could become a climate change casualty and disappear from most of the Wisconsin lakes it now inhabits by the year 2100, according to a new study.
• Surgeon to be next UW-Madison vet research dean Aug. 15, 2011
• Digitization project promises lichens and mosses at our fingertips Aug. 2, 2011 Lichens and mosses are well-known barometers of the environment. But soon lichens and mosses could assume a new and much broader importance as harbingers of environmental change, thanks to an effort to digitize the lichen and moss collections of U.S. herbaria.
• Award allows UW biochemist to investigate mitochondria mystery Aug. 1, 2011 Every student of basic biology learns that mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell - little factories turning oxygen and food into energy.
• Chinese high schoolers to learn from stem cells July 26, 2011 Eighteen students participating in the inaugural Global Wisconsin Idea Program -- a unique pairing of American and Chinese teenagers -- will join a Chinese university dean this week to learn more about the science of stem cells during a hands-on workshop hosted by the Morgridge Institute for Research.
• Novel gene increases yeast's appetite for plant sugars July 25, 2011 For thousands of years, bakers and brewers have relied on yeast to convert sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Yet, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers eager to harness this talent for brewing biofuels have found when it comes to churning through sugars, these budding microbes can be picky eaters.
• Warming climate likely to dramatically increase Yellowstone fires by mid-century July 25, 2011 Climate is changing fire patterns in the west in a way that could markedly change the face of Yellowstone National Park, according to new research.
• Seeds of collaboration: Illinois Titan Arum traces roots to UW July 14, 2011