Stories indexed under: Biosciences

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• Jahn to step down as UW-Madison ag and life sciences dean Oct. 28, 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin and Provost Paul M. DeLuca Jr. today (Oct. 28) announced that Molly Jahn, who has led UW-Madison's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences since 2006, will step down as dean of the college, effective Jan. 1.
• Go Big Read gets a fast start on campus; author to visit on Oct. 25 Oct. 19, 2010 Go Big Read, UW-Madison's common reading program, is off to a vigorous start. Some 5,000 copies of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," by Rebecca Skloot, were given away in September at the Chancellor's Convocation for New Students.
• Plant family tree may help identify species vulnerable to invaders, climate change Oct. 18, 2010 Change has been the norm for Wisconsin's forests over the last 50 years, and the next 50 are unlikely to pass quietly.
• University Research Park has an $825 million annual impact, study says Oct. 12, 2010
• Invasive shrubs increase spread of tick-borne disease Oct. 11, 2010 For a hungry tick, bush honeysuckle is as good as a drive-through.
• Report casts world’s rivers in ‘crisis state’ Sept. 29, 2010 The world's rivers, the single largest renewable water resource for humans and a crucible of aquatic biodiversity, are in a crisis of ominous proportions, according to a new global analysis.
• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center hires chief operating officer Sept. 20, 2010 Anchored in the basic research of academia and charged with generating new biofuels technologies, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) is a bit of a hybrid.
• Hold your noses: Titan Arum is poised to bloom Sept. 16, 2010
• Plants give up some deep secrets of drought resistance Aug. 23, 2010 In a study that promises to fill in the fine details of the plant world's blueprint for surviving drought, a team of Wisconsin researchers has identified in living plants the set of proteins that help them withstand water stress.
• UW-Madison biochemist Henry Lardy dies at age 92 Aug. 6, 2010 Henry A. Lardy, a distinguished professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, passed away on Aug. 4 at the age of 92.
• H1N1 flu virus used new biochemical trick to cause pandemic Aug. 5, 2010 The influenza virus, scientists well know, is a crafty, shape-shifting organism, constantly changing form to evade host immune systems and jump from one species, like birds, to another, mammals.
• Canine influenza vaccine found effective against secondary infections July 8, 2010 Recent research by Ron Schultz, professor and chair of the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, has shown the newly approved Canine Influenza Virus (CIV) vaccine to be effective not only in reducing length, severity and spread of the virus, but also in protecting against secondary infections.
• UW School of Veterinary Medicine advances spinal cord injury treatments July 6, 2010 A full recovery from a spinal cord injury? Don't hold your breath.
• Gene regulating human brain development identified July 1, 2010 With more than 100 billion neurons and billions of other specialized cells, the human brain is a marvel of nature. It is the organ that makes people unique.
• Confronting toxic blue-green algae in Madison lakes July 1, 2010 Harmful algal blooms, once considered mainly a problem in salt water, have been appearing with increasing severity in the Madison lakes, and a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has geared up to understand the when, where and why of these dangerous "blooms."
• Young UW-Madison freshwater scientists noted by Great Lakes group June 30, 2010 Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Limnology won major awards at the recent meeting of the International Association for Great Lakes Research in Toronto.
• UW eye researchers key to major study of diabetic eye disease June 29, 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison ophthalmologists analyzed thousands of eye photographs as part of a large study that says reducing blood lipid levels slows the progression of diabetic retinopathy, the most common diabetic eye problem and a major cause of blindness worldwide.
• Stirring the ocean: Calculating the role of the oceans' swimmers June 28, 2010 The world's oceans, we know, are constantly shaken and stirred by the winds and the tides and other physical forces of nature.
• Changing sounds are key to understanding speech June 22, 2010 On the printed page, c*ns*n*nts m*tt*r m*r* th*n v*w*ls.
• Incidence of malaria jumps when Amazon forests are cut June 16, 2010 Establishing a firm link between environmental change and human disease has always been an iffy proposition. Now, however, a team of scientists from UW-Madison, writing in the online issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, presents the most enumerated case to date linking increased incidence of malaria to land-use practices in the Amazon.