Two technical breakthroughs, from the realms of experimental physics and microscopic communities, have claimed top honors from WARF this year. The 2019 WARF Innovation Award winners are: Mark Saffman (physics) and Ophelia Venturelli, Philip Romero, Ryan Hsu and …
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Can ‘smart toilets’ be the next health data wellspring?
Wearable, smart technologies are transforming the ability to monitor and improve health, but a decidedly low-tech commodity — the humble toilet — may have potential to outperform them all. That’s the conclusion of a team …
Deep in the weeds
If you were to come across a patch of thale cress poking through a crack in a parking lot, you might not think much of it. Its miniscule yellow flowers are little more impressive than …
Researchers may have found a new way to fight skin-burrowing schistosomiasis parasite
Scientists at the Morgridge Institute for Research have isolated a natural chemical that acts as a potent kryptonite against schistosomes, the parasitic worms that burrow through human skin and cause devastating health problems. A research …
Tiny capsules packed with gene-editing tools offer alternative to viral delivery of gene therapy
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 …
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 …