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Engineers drawn to stem cells’ abundance, humanity

Posted on October 18, 2018

“We very quickly became perhaps the top institution in the country in the stem cell engineering area,” says a leading UW researcher. “That was a field that didn’t exist, and we built it.”

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Successful mouse couples talk out infidelity in calm tones

Posted on October 4, 2018

The quality of their conversations between pairs of California mice after one partner has been unfaithful can help predict which mouse pairs will successfully produce a litter of mouse pups and which males are good fathers, according to a new UW-Madison study.

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Nanoparticles improve tumor treatment in mice

Posted on July 25, 2018

In mouse models of human lung cancer, the improved drug inhibited tumor growth more effectively than the standard drug. “Ultimately, our goal is to get this into human beings,” says pharmacy professor Glen Kwon.

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Researchers trace Parkinson’s damage in the heart

Posted on July 13, 2018

Heart attacks, diabetes and other disorders cause similar damage to nerves in the heart. Those patients and potential therapies could also benefit from the new visualization method, says Parkinson’s disease researcher Marina Emborg.

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Scientists take a journey into the lungs of mice infected with influenza

Posted on June 25, 2018

Using a new tool they call FluVision, UW-Madison researchers can witness an influenza infection in a living animal in action, helping them better understand what happens when a virus infects the lungs and the body responds.

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Ebola vaccine inches toward human clinical trials

Posted on February 21, 2018

The need for an Ebola vaccine is acute. Periodic outbreaks of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa, including an epidemic between 2013 and 2016, caused major loss of life and serious economic disruption.

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New hope for stopping an understudied heart disease in its tracks

Posted on December 25, 2017

Thanks, in part, to pigs at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station, scientists now are catching up on understanding the roots of calcific aortic valve disease.

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Monkey study shows a path to monitoring endangered species

Posted on December 13, 2017

“We think this may be one of the most comprehensive efforts to analyze the data monitoring needs for ensuring the survival of an endangered animal,” says Karen Strier, who has observed muriquis in Brazil for 35 years.

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Chimpanzee deaths in Uganda pinned on human cold virus

Posted on December 13, 2017

Scientists investigating an outbreak of respiratory disease in a community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda were surprised and dismayed to discover that rhinovirus C was killing healthy chimps.

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Estrogen discovery could shed new light on fertility problems

Posted on December 12, 2017

Researchers have upended the traditional understanding of the hormonal cascade that leads to release of an egg from the ovaries.

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