Badger Engineers are cleared for takeoff. The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted to approve the creation of a new aerospace engineering major within the UW-Madison College of Engineering on Feb. 5, 2026….
The electrical properties of a neuron paint a picture of its development and function. A new user-friendly and accessible tool developed at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with the help of biomedical…
Expanding a consortium that strengthens ties between the college and the steel industry. Commercializing chip-cooling tech. Designing an economical nuclear microreactor. Through funding and in-kind support, Wisconsin Impact Nexus grants are igniting a ripple effect,…
As spectacular as modern imaging can be in illuminating the tiniest aspects of life, some avenues of biology are still cloaked in darkness. Biological processes that happen over long periods of time—for example, exchanges of…
In an ideal world, after the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool enters a cell’s nucleus and cuts its targeted slice of DNA, it would disappear. “You don’t want the Cas9 protein to stick around too long,” says…
Yang Lu likes to say that searching the human genotype for a biomarker of a given disease is akin to trying to find a needle in a haystack. Or, more accurately, needles—the set of biomarker…
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is transforming cancer care for patients with cancers of the blood, but has proven especially challenging to develop against solid tumors. Researchers at the Morgridge Institute and UW–Madison…
When doctors diagnose ovarian cancer at an early stage, patients have a five-year survival rate of better than 90%, according to the American Cancer Society. That rate plummets as the disease progresses to further stages….
A cell in a crucial heart valve leaflet feels a disruptive stretch, so it produces more of the structural protein collagen—and in extreme cases even produces calcium—to ease its physical…
Ranjana Mehta had just finished presenting her work on occupational fatigue at a conference when a first responder approached her with a somewhat startling request: Could the neuroergonomics researcher look…
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a promising technique for treating osteoarthritis using therapeutic blood clots activated by messenger RNA. Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting roughly…