Devesh Ranjan, a mechanical engineer and a leader at one of the country’s largest and highest-ranked engineering programs, will be the tenth dean of the College of Engineering at the…
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…
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineers has developed a thin, patterned, silicon-based component that excels at trapping non-visible light and could open up low-cost manufacturing possibilities for biochemical…
An interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research initiative led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be the first program in the world to comprehensively investigate how pulsed microwaves might injure the brain. PANTHER,…
For years, cancer researchers have noticed that more men than women get a lethal form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. They’ve also found that these tumors are often more aggressive…
Collagen is the most prevalent protein in the human body, keeping our joints healthy, our bones strong and our skin stretchy. However, studies increasingly show that collagen in the extracellular…
While cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, there are barriers to studying and modeling heart disease in the laboratory. The specialized muscle cells that…
A promising therapy that treats blood cancers by harnessing the power of the immune system to target and destroy cancer cells could now treat solid tumors more efficiently. Thanks to…
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Biomedical Engineering and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) have pioneered a new method to enhance the body’s disease-fighting T cells using advanced…