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 …
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MULTIPLE GENE EDITS AND COMPUTER SIMULATIONS COULD HELP TREAT RARE GENETIC DISEASES
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. …
Cell and Gene Therapy: Bringing Cutting-Edge Therapies to Wisconsin
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 …
With recent hires, women in ECE reach a new milestone
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 …
With $2.3 million NIH New Innovator Award, Hai aims for unprecedented view of the brain
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 …
$32M Commitment from The Grainger Foundation to UW-Madison Engineering will fuel growth
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 …
Small changes, big impact
“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 …
UW RESEARCHERS DEVISE APPROACH TO TREAT RARE, INCURABLE FORM OF BLINDNESS
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 …
New 3D-printed artery can monitor blockages from the inside
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 …
Hu receives National Science Foundation nanoscale interactions grant
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 …