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Featured Science

Stories about discoveries, advancements, and forward-thinking ideas from WID’s research areas, hubs, and key collaborators.

Beyond genetics: Ideas from a flowering plant
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Beyond genetics: Ideas from a flowering plant

August 6, 2015 October 3, 2022  cancer, education, epigenetics, outreach

Xuehua Zhong, Assistant Professor in WID’s Epigenetics Theme studies the epigenetic connections mammals share with plants.

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CSI: Discovery
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CSI: Discovery

July 16, 2015 July 22, 2021  health care, outreach, virtual reality

An emerging collaboration between the Living Environments Lab at WID and the Dane County Sheriff’s office is bringing crime scene investigation into the 21st century with 3D scanning technology.

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Discovery Fellow Aims to Predict Healthcare Outcomes
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Discovery Fellow Aims to Predict Healthcare Outcomes

June 4, 2015 February 24, 2020  big data, health care, machine learning, modeling, precision medicine

David Page tackles relational databases and algorithms to predict and improve patient health.

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Microbial Diversity: Waging War for Coexistence
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Microbial Diversity: Waging War for Coexistence

May 20, 2015 July 22, 2021  complex biological systems, microbiome, modeling, soil science

Kalin Vetsigian’s paper published today in Nature sheds light on how antibiotic production and degradation contribute to diversity in microbial communities.

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Cracking the (Zip)code of Neural Cells
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Cracking the (Zip)code of Neural Cells

April 2, 2015 September 5, 2017  epigenetics, modeling, tissue engineering

Published today in Stem Cell Reports, researchers led by Randolph Ashton and Ethan Lippmann present a unifying protocol to create neural stem cells from diverse regions of the hindbrain and spinal cord.

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With New Tools, Researchers Aim to Broaden Understanding of Toxins’ Effect on the Body
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With New Tools, Researchers Aim to Broaden Understanding of Toxins’ Effect on the Body

March 25, 2015 September 5, 2017  cancer, complex biological systems, tissue engineering

Through an Environmental Protection Agency initiative, WID researchers are playing a key role in learning how toxins impact human health and the environment.

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UW-Madison Researchers Sift and Winnow Data Faster with Advanced Computing Initiative
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UW-Madison Researchers Sift and Winnow Data Faster with Advanced Computing Initiative

March 19, 2015 October 3, 2022  big data, complex biological systems, outreach, software

The Advanced Computing Initiative (ACI) links researchers and computing resources to maximize productivity.

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Flipping the Switch on Pluripotent Stem Cells
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Flipping the Switch on Pluripotent Stem Cells

February 6, 2015 September 5, 2017  cancer, epigenetics, tissue engineering

Rupa Sridharan, Assistant Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology at Wisconsin Institute for Discovery explains how she increased reprogramming efficiency to get pluripotent stem cells.

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UW–Madison and Department of Public Instruction Partnership Builds Creative Tech in Wisconsin Classrooms
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UW–Madison and Department of Public Instruction Partnership Builds Creative Tech in Wisconsin Classrooms

December 16, 2014 September 5, 2017  education, outreach

New Field Day Lab, based in Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teams with Department of Public Instruction to bring apps, games and context to K-12 education.

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New Theory Suggests Alternate Path Led to Rise of the Eukaryotic Cell
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New Theory Suggests Alternate Path Led to Rise of the Eukaryotic Cell

December 12, 2014 October 3, 2017  complex biological systems

A bold new idea of how the eukaryotic cell and, by extension, all complex life came to be is giving scientists an opportunity to reexamine some of biology’s key dogma.

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Researchers Search for New Ways to Balance Big Data and Privacy
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Researchers Search for New Ways to Balance Big Data and Privacy

December 5, 2014 September 5, 2017  big data, ethics, health care, machine learning, optimization

How can researchers extract useful information from patient data to develop life-saving treatments while making sure records stay private and protected? A WID collaboration looks for an answer.

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Beautiful Data: Cell Biology Yields Microcosms of Art
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Beautiful Data: Cell Biology Yields Microcosms of Art

October 9, 2014 April 2, 2019  tissue engineering

Peering through lenses, researchers are finding award-winning fluorescent landscapes, artful strokes, and a multitude of cell shapes and signals.

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Students Power Up in Classroom with Biofuels Video Game
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Students Power Up in Classroom with Biofuels Video Game

October 2, 2014 July 25, 2022  big data, education, software, soil science

Students wrestle with the sustainability challenges of making real-world decisions about biofuel agriculture while playing an educational video game developed by WID researchers.

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Optimizing the World, One Problem at a Time
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Optimizing the World, One Problem at a Time

September 26, 2014 October 5, 2018  education, modeling, optimization, software

What if a computer program could take a problem you’re trying to solve and send back the most efficient solution?

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Spreading the Benefits of Stem Cell Advances
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Spreading the Benefits of Stem Cell Advances

August 20, 2014 September 5, 2017  tissue engineering

Researchers are working on ways to standardize how stem cells are harnessed to advance therapies and study disease.

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Harvesting the Power of Big Data in Agriculture
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Harvesting the Power of Big Data in Agriculture

June 9, 2014 April 2, 2019  -omics, big data, modeling, optimization, soil science, tissue engineering

Harvesting data and harvesting crops? There’s an app for that.

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WID and New York Hall of Science Team Collects Museum Data to Drive Learning and Collaboration Research
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WID and New York Hall of Science Team Collects Museum Data to Drive Learning and Collaboration Research

May 28, 2014 June 7, 2019  big data

WID and the New York Hall of Science team up to collect data on learning and games.

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Growing Epigenetics Community Gives “Nurture” Deepened Meaning
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Growing Epigenetics Community Gives “Nurture” Deepened Meaning

May 19, 2014 October 3, 2022  epigenetics

At the first Midwest Chromatin and Epigenetics Meeting, WID researchers and scientists around the country are giving new meaning to the “Nature versus Nurture” debate.

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WID Researcher Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve the Genetic Engineering of Stem Cells
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WID Researcher Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve the Genetic Engineering of Stem Cells

May 13, 2014 September 5, 2017

Kris Saha has received the NSF CAREER Award for developing methods to more easily produce stem cells to model human disease.

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National Computing Collaboration: WID and UW Expand Advanced Computing in Research
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National Computing Collaboration: WID and UW Expand Advanced Computing in Research

April 11, 2014 October 3, 2022  software

Learn about WID and UW–Madison’s role in a national effort to enhance research computing.

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WID Collaboration Visualizes Neutrino Data in 3D
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WID Collaboration Visualizes Neutrino Data in 3D

April 8, 2014 October 5, 2018  outreach, virtual reality, visualization

To better understand the cosmos, WID and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center researchers are examining activity at the world’s largest neutrino detector in the Institute’s immersive virtual reality environment.

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WID Stem Cell Advance Yields Mature Heart Muscle Cells
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WID Stem Cell Advance Yields Mature Heart Muscle Cells

March 15, 2014 October 3, 2019  tissue engineering

WID and UW-Madison researchers are finding ways to program stem cells to behave more like heart muscle cells.

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WID and UW-Madison Partner in National Effort to Retool U.S. Manufacturing
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WID and UW-Madison Partner in National Effort to Retool U.S. Manufacturing

February 26, 2014 September 5, 2017  tissue engineering

WID and UW-Madison are national partners for the newly formed Digital Lab for Manufacturing, a White House initiative to develop digital tools to enhance manufactured products, from conception to production.

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“Greener” Aerogel Technology Holds Potential for Oil and Chemical Clean-Up
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“Greener” Aerogel Technology Holds Potential for Oil and Chemical Clean-Up

February 24, 2014 September 7, 2022  nanotechnology, tissue engineering

A WID team examines greener materials to offer a cheaper and more sustainable way to absorb oil from water.

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Mining the Mind: High Throughput Computing and the Future of Brain Research
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Mining the Mind: High Throughput Computing and the Future of Brain Research

February 20, 2014 September 5, 2017

WID and Morgridge Institute for Research’s high throughput computing allows scientists to look at brain data in new ways.

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