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Research Across the AI Spectrum
Backed by funding from the National Science Foundation, College of Letters & Science faculty, including Discovery Fellow, Bilge Mutlu, are tackling a red-hot research topic.
Wisconsin Science Festival makes curiosity to go with “Science in a Bag”
The Wisconsin Science Festival (WSF), now in its 15th year, returns Oct. 16-26 with more than 600 events across 56 counties—breaking its previous record of 52 counties. What began in 2011 as a three-day, Madison-only gathering has grown into a 10-day, statewide celebration of science, technology, engineering, art and math for people of all ages, backgrounds, and interests. A centerpiece of this festival is Science in a Bag — an initiative that will deliver 3,000 drawstring backpacks, each filled with ten to twelve hands-on experiments and activities designed to spark curiosity, plus access to an online portal for more ways to engage with STEAM.
CRISPR with a ‘dimmer’ could elevate precision gene editing
“This platform has the potential to ‘dim’ genome editing in a wide variety of contexts,” says WID faculty, Krishanu Saha, “not only inside the body, but outside the body, and also has implications for fundamental studies of how genome editing occurs in cells, in tissues, and in animals.”
PhD student pushes CRISPR-edited CAR-T cells closer to the clinic
Anna Tommasi is a member of the Saha lab, which has worked closely with researchers at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health to advance CAR-T cell therapies that are modified at the genetic level. They aim to start new trials for brain cancers next year.
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