Stories indexed under: Biosciences

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• Organic solids in soil may speed up bacterial breathing May 23, 2010 The "mineral-breathing" bacteria found in many oxygen-free environments may be "carbon-breathing" as well.
• Master Gardeners seed UW-Madison horticulture scholarship May 20, 2010 The SouthEast Wisconsin Master Gardeners have been sharing their gardens' abundance at an annual plant sale for years. They dig and divide thousands of perennials, everything from astilbes to zinnias, that shoppers stand in line to buy. Irises, daylilies and hostas are plentiful. Trilliums go quickly.
• Biology “boot camp” to help incoming students through maze of UW-Madison biology May 20, 2010 Incoming biology students at University of Wisconsin-Madison will get extensive new help navigating the tricky transition from high school to a university that has 31 different majors related to biology, funded by a $1.4 million undergraduate science education grant announced today by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• Symposium celebrates 100 years of UW-Madison genetics May 19, 2010 It's been an eventful 100 years.
• Noted UW-Madison biochemist Robert Burris dies at 96 May 12, 2010 Robert H. Burris, a noted University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist, died on Tuesday, May 11 at the age of 96.
• For comfort, mom’s voice works as well as a hug May 11, 2010 "Reach out and touch someone" - good advertising slogan, or evolutionary imperative?
• It's a small world (for small people) after all May 10, 2010 Lab-coated and goggled, Troy Dassler's 15 third graders are itching to power up their digital optical microscopes.
• In Europe, bison find plenty of room to roam May 5, 2010 The European bison, a close relative of the American bison, has been on a slow road to recovery for almost a century. Europe's largest grazing animal once dwelled from central Russia to Spain, but by the beginning of the 20th century, habitat loss and hunting had reduced them to 54 animals.
• NIH reapproves WiCell’s H9 and three other Wisconsin stem cell lines for federally funded research April 27, 2010 Today the National Institutes of Health reapproved the WiCell Research Institute's H9 (WA09) human embryonic stem (ES) cell line, the most used and cited in scientific research, for ongoing use in federally funded research.
• Life history database aids wild primate studies April 22, 2010 Karen Strier can breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that much of her life's work is now safe.
• 'Consciousness' comes to mind for annual bioethics forum April 19, 2010 The 9th Annual International Bioethics Forum, "Taking the Measure of the Magic Mirror: Toward a Science of Consciousness" will be held April 22-23 at Promega Corporation's BioPharmaceutical Technology Center.
• Stem cell symposium to focus on hurdles in stem cell therapy development April 15, 2010 The fifth annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium, called "The Road to Stem Cell Applications: Bioprocessing, Safety and Preclinical Evaluation," will be held on Wednesday, April 21 just outside of Madison.
• CAREER Award funds study of how estrogen-mimics affect cells April 15, 2010 An intricate biochemical messaging network, the endocrine system enables human bodies to grow and function properly throughout their lives.
• Symposium honors long-time development and evolution researcher April 14, 2010 The biologists gathering on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this Thursday, April 15, have one thing in common beyond their scientific interests in evolution and animal development.
• As honeybee colonies collapse, can native bees handle pollination? April 13, 2010 With colony collapse disorder continuing to plague commercial beekeepers in many parts of the country, University of Wisconsin-Madison experts are studying whether native pollinators can supply the insect pollination needed to form many fruits.
• Controls for animals’ color designs revealed April 7, 2010 The vivid colors and designs animals use to interact with their environments have awed and inspired since before people learned to draw on the cave wall.
• From raw biomass, chemical process produces simple, fermentable sugars March 9, 2010 A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has developed a promising new chemical method to liberate the sugar molecules trapped inside inedible plant biomass, a key step in the creation of cellulosic biofuels.
• Celebrating 25 years at UW-Madison’s Biotechnology Center March 8, 2010 On Wednesday, March 10, the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus community and guests will join in celebrating 25 years of operation at the UW-Madison Biotechnology Center.
• DNR taps UW-Madison expertise to measure, manage state deer herd March 2, 2010 Wisconsin wildlife managers are tapping into University of Wisconsin-Madison expertise in wildlife ecology, forest ecology and environmental communications in order to better manage the state's population of white-tailed deer.
• Regulatory network balances stem cell maintenance, differentiation Jan. 11, 2010 While much of the promise of stem cells springs from their ability to develop into any cell type in the body, the biological workings that control that maturation process are still largely unknown.