The night before Halloween, I found myself desperately searching for a costume. After three years of donning humorous and cuddly attire, I gradually lost my self-perpetuated reputation for being hardcore This year I decided to go as the most badass entity imaginable: Phytophthora infestans, which literally translates to “growth-destroying attacker.
In January 2009, Richard Smith re-enrolled at UW-Madison after a 46-year hiatus. He is a distinguished dental surgeon who left UW-Madison for dental school at Columbia in 1963 without completing his undergraduate education. When you were a little boy, what did you think you would do when you grew up? I always thought that I would like engineering.
Real-life sci-fi episodes including a self-inflected deathly itch, transcendental meditation, torture victims and genetically engineered rice and 26 stories glorifying these motifs grace the pages of the ninth book in a yearly series called “The Best American Science Writing 2009.
In a recent breakthrough, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have successfully grown retinal cells from two types of stem cells, a critical step in treatments of certain kinds of blindness. Noticing a lack of stem cell research involving the retina, lead researcher David Gamm, a faculty member in the Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Department, member of the UW Eye Research Institute, and research scientist Jason Meyer decided it was time to apply techniques successful in growing other types of cells to diseases of the retina.
A UW study that used functional magnetic resonance imaging to observe brain responses to aversive pictures in subjects showed what most college students already know: uncertainty about life events is scary. Subjects in the study were presented with a mix of aversive and neutral pictures.
UW-Madison professors show that monkeys can groove to music,contrary to previous evudence
While humans and other primates share many similarities in their molecular makeup and behavior, responding to music is not on the list. Researchers studying how primates respond to music have always found that they scarcely do and in fact, given a choice between music and silence, actually prefer silence.
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