In a time when million-dollar security breaches of major corporations regularly make headlines and complicate lives, computer science undergraduates at America's universities remain surprisingly underexposed to basic cybersecurity ...
Software
May 16, 2016
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In the amphibian world, the axolotl is the replacement-parts king.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 3, 2016
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One remarkable quality of pluripotent stem cells is they are immortal in the lab, able to divide and grow indefinitely under the right conditions. It turns out this ability also may exist further down the development path, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 13, 2014
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A major puzzle of biology is that while the human genome contains roughly 20,000 genes, many comparatively primitive organisms—including the universally-studied worm C. elegans—have almost the same number of genes.
Biotechnology
Mar 23, 2023
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The Morgridge Institute for Research and University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are working to optimize a camera capable of a slick optical trick: Snapping pictures around corners.
Engineering
Jul 28, 2016
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Henry He, a researcher at the Morgridge Institute for Research and doctoral student in the Dresden International Ph.D. Program, Germany, and Liz Haynes, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Integrative Biology at UW-Madison, ...
Other
Oct 1, 2018
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Cell culture media, the cocktail of chemicals and nutrients that keep cells alive and thriving in a dish, have been an essential tool of biology for more than 70 years. Remarkably, the composition of these potions hasn't ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 4, 2019
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An invention designed to transform how and where high-powered research microscopes are deployed—and who gets to use them—will make its way from Madison this spring to the fertile biology labs of greater Boston.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 19, 2019
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Model organisms are essential for biomedical research and have enabled many important scientific discoveries. The ability to sequence the genomes of these models is a powerful tool to study the genetic factors that impact ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 9, 2022
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Modern microscopy has given scientists a front-row seat to living, breathing biology in all its technicolor glory. But access to the best technologies can be spotty.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 21, 2018
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