Fall is the season for corn mazes across the Midwest, but this year one Lodi farm is taking your traditional corn maze to the next level — by cutting it in the shape of science’s …
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Simpler COVID-19 Test Could Provide Results in Hours From Saliva
Posted onVolunteers at four sites in Madison are being tested for the virus that causes COVID-19 by spitting in a vial, which may prove faster, cheaper and less complicated than other common tests, according to …
Parasitic worms use their keen senses to wriggle through their hosts
Posted onParasitic filarial nematodes infect hundreds of millions of people, causing diseases such as river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, which can lead to elephantiasis, a severe swelling of the limbs. Mosquitoes spread the parasitic worms, which …
Forming Genitals in Boys Requires Complex Dance Between Genes and Hormones
Posted onThe most common congenital disorders of all, especially in baby boys, are differences in a newborn’s sexual anatomy that is not standard female or male. In boys, they include undescended testicles, misplaced urethras, and improperly …
Hamsters Develop Protective Immunity to COVID-19 and Are Protected by Convalescent Sera
Posted onIn an animal model for COVID-19 that shares important features of human disease, scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Tokyo and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai show that prior …
Study Confirms Cats Can Become Infected With and May Transmit COVID-19 to Other Cats
Posted onIn a study published today (May 13, 2020) in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in the U.S. and Japan report that in the laboratory, cats can readily become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus …
UW–Madison Researches Coronavirus Transmission
Posted onPreliminary data from a UW–Madison research team suggests that travel restrictions and social distancing guidelines are working in Wisconsin. That was just one of the insights on COVID-19 from UW–Madison expert Thomas Friedrich, professor of …
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Works With Campus Partners to Test for COVID-19
Posted onAs COVID-19 has infected more than 1 million people around the world — and more than 2,500 Wisconsin residents — since late December 2019, everything from nose-and-throat swabs to the chemical substances, or reagents, …
New Canine Study Investigates Cancers and Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
Posted onCertain dogs may be more susceptible than others to developing environmentally associated cancers. Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine are studying how exposure to common environmental chemicals, like …
UW–Madison, Flugen, Bharat Biotech to Develop Coroflu, a Coronavirus Vaccine
Posted onAn international collaboration of virologists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the vaccine companies FluGen and Bharat Biotech has begun the development and testing of a unique vaccine against COVID-19 called CoroFlu. CoroFlu will build …