University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers and their collaborators are making progress toward developing universal vaccines against some the planet’s most harmful pathogens, including the virus family responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic....
hough it might be easy to picture a scene out of “Jaws,” these sharks have arrived to help humans, not hunt them. In fact, the sharks will be integral to research focused on therapies for diseases such as cancer. ...
While electronic medical records clearly have a long list of benefits—they’re legible, portable, shareable and can contain real-time alerts for physicians—the field is still growing and evolving, and some challenges have emerged along the way....
Thanks to leadership from Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD, professor, Infectious Disease, and colleagues, the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital will join a national network of VA medical centers dedicated to strengthening clinical research at those centers....
Clinical trials drive progress forward. They give patients early access to new treatments that lead to better outcomes. Yet racial and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in clinical research, according to the FDA....
The National Science Foundation has released its 2020 fiscal year Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) data and the University of Wisconsin–Madison has again ranked 8th in the national research rankings for public and private universities....
Targeting cancers and viruses, better knowledge of the human immune system is leading to new medicines. By Daniel M. Davis, WIRED Around halfway through 2022, we will have witnessed a number of significant breakthroughs in ways in which we can engineer the body’s immune system to fight disease....
By Eric Boodman, STAT hat Christi Taylor-Gentry remembers most about third grade are the times when the teaching stopped and she and her twin sister were sent out of the room. They were new at Lanier Elementary. Their parents were newly divorced, their mom living in...
Small, unique antibody-like proteins known as VNARs — derived from the immune systems of sharks — can prevent the virus that causes COVID-19, its variants, and related coronaviruses from infecting human cells, according to a new study....
By Kathryn Larson, Spectrum News UW Health celebrates two decades of the world’s largest family history study one participant shares her deep connection to the important project. "It was very hard to watch her kind of wither away," daughter Kathy Schmitt said about seeing her mother, Dorothy,...
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