New tools for editing genetic code offer hope for new treatments for inherited diseases, some cancers, and even stubborn viral infections. But the typical method for delivering gene therapies to specific tissues in the body …
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A Trojan horse? Immune cells ferry deadly fungus from mouse lung into the blood
A report today (June 27) in PLOS Pathogens shows how inhaled fungal spores exit the lung and trigger a fatal infection in mice. The study solves a mystery of mycology: Why are spores of a …
UW–Madison and WARF again rank high in patents
A survey of the world’s top universities placed the University of Wisconsin–Madison as the seventh-greatest source of U.S. patents. The ranking, by the National Academy of Inventors and Intellectual Property Owners Association, attests to UW–Madison’s …
Gellman leads UW2020 Round 5 project
Seventeen projects, ranging from topics such as electrical stimulation for advanced wound healing to establishing a Radio Astronomy Data Science Center at UW–Madison, and expanding the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) into the next decade, have …
BTP Mentors receive prestigious campus awards
Thirty-two members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been awarded 2019-20 faculty fellowships, including three Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) Mentors. The awardees span the four divisions — arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences …
UW Changes Lives: Building a biomanufacturing hotbed
To Bill Murphy and the other leaders of the Forward BIO Initiative, Wisconsin possesses all the elements to become a hub of biomanufacturing in the United States, the Midwest’s version of Boston or San Francisco in this rapidly …
BTP trainees learn about opportunities in industrial biotechnology on visit to cheese factory
To learn about industrial biotechnology’s role in the cheese and dairy industry, Ph.D. trainees in the UW–Madison Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) recently traveled to Cedar Grove Cheese located in Plain, Wisc. At the cheese factory …
Two BTP trainees garner 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Congratulations to two Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) trainees who received 2019 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Katherine Bultman from the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program under BTP mentor Mark Mandel Katherine Senn …
Personalized in vitro model enables drug screening for kidney cancer
One way to treat the most common type of kidney cancer is to use anti-angiogenic drugs to cut off the blood supply to the tumors, but patients respond differently to the drugs, and choosing the wrong …
MR Guidance: Next frontier in hemorrhagic stroke
Stroke treatment has come a long way in the past decade: patients, hurried by the slogan “time is brain,” are visiting stroke centers for injections of clot-busting drugs to prevent brain damage. But that progress …