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As the average human life span increases, it is essential to ensure a high quality of life by maintaining brain and mind health. To match the advances in prolonging life, WID researchers seek a fundamental understanding of how the human brain and mind function through -omic profiling, tissue engineering, and predictions about health and disease using electronic health records. This understanding may lead to gene editing methods to correct neural problems, drugs to treat currently untreatable diseases, and methods to protect, repair, or regenerate neural tissue. Healthy brains mean better lives. Much of WID's research contributes to the Healthy Brain Grand Challenge.
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New Tool Predicts Three-Dimensional Organization of Human Chromosomes Featured Science WID researchers have developed a computational tool that can accurately predict the three-dimensional interactions between regions of human chromosomes. Continue Reading Lifelike Chemistry Created in Lab Search for Ways to Study Origin of Life Featured Science Discovery Fellow David Baum leads a team that has cultivated lifelike chemical reactions while pioneering a new strategy for studying the origin of life. Continue Reading Data Scientists Unite Research and Policy in New Project Wisconsin Stories A new data science project, "WEREWOLF", puts powerful modeling tools into the hands of Wisconsin policymakers to create the energy systems of tomorrow. Continue Reading Science Outreach: A Versatile Training Tool Wisconsin Stories Genetics professor Xuehua Zhong is a true believer in the power of outreach to instill a love of science in young people and develop mentoring skills in her students. To her delight, she has found an opportunity to do both. Continue Reading Deep in the Weeds Featured Science Xuehua Zhong's close study of an ordinary plant's cellular mechanisms could lead to big advances in agriculture and medicine. Zhong is featured in Grow magazine. Continue Reading Tiny Capsules Packed with Gene-Editing Tools Offer Alternative to Viral Delivery of Gene Therapy Featured Science An interdisciplinary pair of WID researchers has developed a new nanocapsule delivery method for delivering the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool. The new system could be used for many types of gene therapies. Continue Reading

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