Until now, no one has been able to pin down why the world’s wild, freshwater mussels—often unnoticed and underappreciated engineers of stream and river health—are facing massive, unexpected die-offs. In a paper published today (September 2, 2020) …
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Summer Scholars Present Research Virtually at 2020 National Veterinary Symposium
Posted onThe UW School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) was well represented at the 2020 Virtual Veterinary Student Scholars Symposium in August, held online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Seventeen doctor of veterinary medicine (DVM) …
Advancing the Fight Against a Global Pandemic
Posted onBy studying the novel coronavirus from many angles and disciplines, UW–Madison is at the forefront of fighting COVID-19. School of Veterinary Medicine researchers are leading several of these studies, helping to address major challenges of …
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 …
COVID Questions: Superspreaders, Herd Immunity
Posted onNote: UW-Madison will be publishing answers to questions about COVID-19 and the pandemic each week in a COVID questions column. If you have a question, please email it to covid19update@uc.wisc.edu. This post was originally published …
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 …
2020 Dystel Prize for MS Research Goes to Ian Duncan for Advances in Understanding Myelin Repair
Posted on National Multiple Sclerosis Society
The 2020 John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research has been awarded to Professor Ian Duncan for his groundbreaking research on myelin (the protective nerve coating that is damaged in MS). The Dystel Prize is given jointly by the National MS Society and the American Academy of Neurology.
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 …