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mRNA-Activated Blood Clots Could Cushion the Blow of Osteoarthritis

University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have developed a promising technique for treating osteoarthritis using therapeutic blood clots activated by messenger RNA.
22-Jan-2025 8:45 PM EST Add to Favorites

Why Do Birds Make So Many Different Sounds? A New UW–Madison Study Gets at the Underlying Factors 

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure.  But the conditions that contribute to the immense diversity of the sounds they make are not well understood. Researchers at the...
8-Jan-2025 10:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Dinosaurs Roamed the Northern Hemisphere Millions of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, According to New Analysis of the Oldest North American Fossils

A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were uncovered by University of Wisconsin–Madison paleontologists is challenging the existing narrative, with evidence that the reptiles were present in the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier...
7-Jan-2025 3:10 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Threat of Abrupt Mortality Events Keeps Endangered Monkey Population at Risk, Despite Decades of Growth

Despite the population being almost four times larger than it was in 1982, a new study published in the journal Ecology suggests the northern muriqui monkeys remain at risk, especially in the face of ongoing habitat disturbances.Northern muriquis,...
16-Dec-2024 9:00 PM EST Add to Favorites

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UW Researchers Find Previously Unknown Links Between Microbial Bile Acids and the Risk of Colon Cancer

Microbes living in our guts help us digest food by reshaping the bile acids that our livers produce for breaking down fats. It turns out that two of these microbially-modified bile acids may affect our risk — in opposite directions — for...
16-Dec-2024 7:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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New Tool Makes Quick Health, Environmental Monitoring Possible

University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemists have developed a new, efficient method that may give first responders, environmental monitoring groups, or even you, the ability to quickly detect harmful and health-relevant substances in our bodies and...
26-Nov-2024 11:40 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Research to Treat Placenta Could Improve Human Pregnancies

A gene therapy approach to boosting the placenta is safe in monkeys, according to a new, short-term study, bringing the potential treatment closer to improving birthweights of human babies and sparing them the complications of an early birth and...
26-Nov-2024 10:50 AM EST Add to Favorites

Engineered Additive Makes Low-Cost Renewable Energy Storage a Possibility

As part of an effort to overcome the long-term energy-storage challenge, University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers have invented a water-soluble chemical additive that improves the performance of a type of electrochemical storage called a bromide...
22-Nov-2024 2:05 PM EST Add to Favorites


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AI and Machine Learning Expert Available to Discuss Significance of DeepSeek for Global, U.S. AI Development

29-Jan-2025 7:10 PM EST

Donna Friedsam, an expert on health care financing, coverage, access, and cost, can discuss Trump's request that Supreme Court invalidate the ACA

26-Jun-2020 11:50 AM EDT

Expert on youth/teens and environmental activism is available for analysis on global youth climate protest

20-Sep-2019 2:40 PM EDT

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UW-Madison Bioethicist Co-Chairs Gene Editing Study

R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and longtime student of the regulation and ethics of biotechnology, was named co-chair of a study committee established Nov. 12 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to look into the...
13-Nov-2015 11:05 AM EST

UW Experts: Census Bureau’s Annual ‘Poverty Numbers’ Provide Good News

The new “poverty numbers” from the U.S. Census Bureau reflect some good news for the nation’s antipoverty efforts, according to UW–Madison experts.
18-Sep-2015 11:05 AM EDT

New MOOCs to Focus on Environmental and Community Themes

It was Aldo Leopold — the 20th century conservationist, father of wildlife management and former University of Wisconsin faculty member, who once said, “There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other and the relation...
1-Jul-2014 3:00 PM EDT

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Made-in-Wisconsin Atom Probe Assisted Dating of Oldest Piece of Earth

It's a scientific axiom: big claims require extra-solid evidence. So when University of Wisconsin-Madison geoscience professor John Valley dated an ancient crystal to 4.4 billion years ago, skeptics questioned the dating. Then, in 2013, Valley's...
17-Apr-2014 11:00 AM EDT

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‘Stem Cell Tourism’ Takes Advantage of Patients, Says Law Professor

Desperate patients are easy prey for unscrupulous clinics offering untested and risky stem cell treatments, says law and bioethics Professor Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is studying “stem cell tourism.”
24-Mar-2014 4:00 PM EDT

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