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More than half a million Americans from Oregon to Virginia dealt with power outages Thursday as winter storms continued in parts of the country. Earlier this week, Texas was hit particularly hard. Frigid temperatures caused demand for electricity to skyrocket, while also preventing the state — which is on its own electrical grid — from …
The lab of Kris Saha at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has developed an innovative combination of gene-editing tools and computational simulations that can be used to develop new strategies for editing genes associated with genetic disorders. In proof-of-concept experiments, the lab’s researchers efficiently corrected multiple mutations responsible for a rare metabolic disorder, known as Pompe disease, in cells …
Gene therapy has captured the public’s imagination as several products have now been approved for therapeutic use and hundreds more are being tested in clinical trials. In pursuit of this great potential, biomedical engineering associate professor Krishanu “Kris” Saha plans to lead the Grainger Institute for Engineering’s newest impact area, cell and gene therapy, by strengthening these possibilities, …
UW–Madison’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering reached a milestone when assistant professors Ying Wang and Ramya Vinayak joined the faculty in August 2020. The new professors bring the total number of women in the department to nine, or about 20 percent of tenure-track faculty, exceeding the national average for women in electrical and computer engineering by more than five percentage …
In order to read this sentence, multiple parts of your brain must work together, teaming up in a matter of milliseconds to string together letters into words and process their meaning. And it’s not just cognitive tasks that span the brain’s regions; neurological disease and dysfunction do too. But when neuroscientists or clinicians want to …
MADISON – A $32 million commitment to the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering will further propel this prestigious College on its upward trajectory and continue to enhance its ability to attract and support the highest quality faculty and students in the nation. This latest pledge of support from The Grainger Foundation of Lake Forest, …
“How do you convince people there’s a big idea?” According to Zhenqiang “Jack” Ma, the Lynn H. Matthias Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in electrical and computer engineering, questions like these are fundamental to getting research support and funding. And researchers like Ma—whose work explores the spaces and interactions between individual atoms—know that understanding …
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have published a proof-of-concept method to correct an inherited form of macular degeneration that causes blindness, and that is currently untreatable. Best vitelliform macular degeneration, or Best disease, is an inherited eye condition that typically leads to blindness over the course of a few decades. The disease can be …
When surgeons replace part of a blood vessel — something they do in 450,000 patients per year in the United States to treat blood clots, coronary disease, stroke damage and more — the grafted vessel is monitored by CT scans, ultrasounds and other expensive imaging techniques. Despite all that effort, between 40% and 50% of …
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems recently extended a Nanoscale Interactions Program grant for UW–Madison Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor and Grainger Institute for Engineering Fellow Jiamian Hu. Hu serves as principal investigator for the project titled “Magnetic-field Control of Ionic Bonds on Polar Surfaces by Design,” which includes co-principal investigators Chang-Beom Eom, Raymond …