Revolutionary Engineered Blood Vessels Behave Like the Real Thing
ppointer2024-11-14T22:07:46-06:00WID's Tom Turng envisions a future in which surgeons can order mass-produced artificial blood vessels that arrive ready to use in bypass surgeries.
WID Hubs Launch at Illuminating Connections Event
ppointer2025-01-27T14:39:33-06:00WID's new hubs—Data Science, Multi-Omics, and Illuminating Discovery—represent a new path forward for collaborative research projects and fields.
Could Yesterday’s Earth Contain Clues for Making Tomorrow’s Medicines?
ppointer2024-11-14T22:08:34-06:00WID's John Yin and colleagues have described initial steps toward achieving chemistries that encode information in a variety of conditions that might mimic the environment of prehistoric Earth.
New Technology for Controlling Neural Tissue Manufacturing
ppointer2025-01-27T14:39:06-06:00A paper published in eLife this week by an interdisciplinary team at WID describes new methods for reproducibly manufacturing brain and spinal cord organoids with strict control over morphogenic and developmental processes.
UW–Madison Researchers Developing Methods to Edit Genes in Brain Cells
ppointer2024-11-14T22:09:22-06:00A second WID-led team joins NIH's Somatic Cell Genome Editing Consortium with a grant to study new methods of delivering the CRISPR/Cas9 system to the brain.
WSJ: Weather Forecasts Should Get Over the Rainbow
ppointer2024-11-14T22:09:49-06:00Professor Karen Schloss of WID's Visual Reasoning Lab tells the Wall Street Journal about the pitfalls of the rainbow-colored maps used to communicate during storms like the recent Hurricane Florence.
Using Data Science to Find the Next El Nino
ppointer2025-01-27T14:33:29-06:00A new approach to climate data analysis hopes to improve regional forecasts.
Data Science Initiative Supports Faculty Research at UW–Madison
ppointer2024-11-14T22:10:41-06:00Ten highly innovative projects have been chosen to receive University of Wisconsin–Madison Data Science Initiative funding, including two led by Wisconsin Institute for Discovery investigators.
Air Force-Backed Center to Make Machine Learning More Independent, Predictable, Secure
ppointer2025-01-27T14:34:44-06:00Much remains mysterious in the realm of machine learning. The next generation of machine learning algorithms is expected to not only bolster national defense capabilities, but also benefit civilians.
WID Researchers Looking to the Future with UW2020 Awards
ppointer2024-11-14T22:11:39-06:00Investigators from WID are among the recipients of the latest round of UW2020 awards.
UW Carbone Scientists Present at Annual Cancer Research Conference
ppointer2024-11-14T22:11:58-06:00One of the UW Carbone Cancer Center members presenting is WID's Peter Lewis. His work focuses on how genes are turned on and off during embryonic development, and how misregulation in those genes can lead to some childhood cancers.
When Communicating with Color, Balance Can Be a Path to Accuracy
ppointer2024-11-14T22:44:07-06:00Karen Schloss and Laurent Lessard are working on a method for matching colors to people's expectations to send the right message — starting with the best colors for waste and recycling bins.
Small But Mighty: Nanoparticles Can Deliver More Types of Drugs, More Safely
ppointer2024-11-14T22:13:06-06:00WID researcher Shaoqin Sarah Gong is working to more safely deliver a variety of drugs to treat cancer, heart disease and even blindness.
Wisconsin Instructors Engaging Students in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
ppointer2025-01-27T14:44:03-06:00Instructors from schools across the state are getting their hands dirty in the search for antibiotics by joining a new program.
Mastodons, Brains, and a View of Mars: How the Wisconsin Science Festival Helps Bring Kids and Science Together
ppointer2024-11-14T22:14:59-06:00The Wisconsin Science Festival was a roaring success, with every corner of the Discovery Building containing something for people to see, hear, touch or manipulate.
Scientists Struggle with Sexism and Racism: ‘We Think These Bias Studies Don’t Apply to Us’
ppointer2024-11-14T22:15:12-06:00The Washington Post writes about the harsh realities faced by women and minorities in science presented by WID Director Jo Handelsman at the Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington, D.C.
Communication and Policy the Focus of Two Science Festival Events
ppointer2024-11-14T22:15:35-06:00WID Director Jo Handelsman and the Catalysts for Science Policy were instrumental in assembling fantastic panels for mini-symposia about science policy and science communication geared toward graduate students, postdocs, and faculty but open to anyone interested in science.
Catalysts for Science Policy Group Finds New Home at WID, Focuses on Forensic Science Policy
ppointer2024-11-15T14:03:42-06:00CaSP is joining with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery to amplify its voice on science policy issues. On October 4 in the Discovery Building, they host a panel on improving forensic science policy.
Interdisciplinary Faculty Build Data Science Future in New Institute Based at WID
ppointer2024-11-14T22:16:31-06:00The new institute, housed at UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), will play a key role in the future of data science, developing fundamental techniques for handling increasingly massive data sets in shorter times.
The “Icing” on the DNA
ppointer2024-11-14T22:16:54-06:00Xuehua Zhong recently received an outstanding investigator award from NIH via the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) mechanism to support her research. She talked about how she uses plants to study epigenetics in an interview with Grow magazine.
Jo Handelsman Named Vilas Research Professor
ppointer2024-11-14T22:17:25-06:00Handelsman is one of 34 faculty honored with Vilas professorships supported by the estate of professor, Senator, and Regent William F. Vilas.
Machine Learning Can Detect a Genetic Disorder from Speech Recordings
ppointer2024-11-14T22:17:35-06:00Machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence by which algorithms are "trained" to analyze new information using existing data. Researchers are using it to identify individuals with a genetic condition known as fragile X premutation.
Highly Foamed Plastic Parts Are Stronger and Cheaper to Produce
ppointer2024-11-14T22:18:11-06:00Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng and Xiaofei Sun have developed a new method of fabricating highly foamed, injection-molded plastic parts.
Phenotypic variability and community interactions of germinating Streptomyces spores
ppointer2025-01-27T14:21:01-06:00Systems Biology researcher Kalin Vetsigian and graduate student Ye Xu recently published findings in Nature's Scientific Reports about the stochasticity of growth within Streptomycetes spore communities.
Experiments Test How Easy Life Itself Might Be
ppointer2024-11-14T22:19:00-06:00WID scientists are combining theory with experiment to try to understand how life could arise from lifelike chemical reactions under the right conditions.
