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Scientists Seek to Improve Quality Control for Genome Editing Therapies in the Eye
UW researchers led by WID's Kris Saha join the National Institutes of Health’s Somatic Cell Genome Editing Consortium with a major collaborative award.
WSJ: Weather Forecasts Should Get Over the Rainbow
Professor 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.
The Big Dig: Tiny Earth Studentsources Antibiotic Discovery
From On Wisconsin Magazine: UW-Madison students are joining the hunt for new antibiotics in their introductory biology coursework and becoming part of the Tiny Earth network, based at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
Using Data Science to Find the Next El Nino
A new approach to climate data analysis hopes to improve regional forecasts.
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