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UWM researchers discovered that a common beta blocker, used to treat people with hypertension, has shown to be effective in preventing the brain from retrieving memories associated with cocaine use in animal-addiction models.
Previous research has found that parental status reinforces a range of disparities between men and women. The remedy could be simple empathy, a UWM study suggests.
Ching-Hong Yang, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has developed a compound that shuts off the “valve” in a pathogen’s DNA that allows it to invade and infect, blocking infection without the threat of antibiotic resistance.
Despite successful interventions to increase the numbers of women earning degrees in engineering, the field faces a problem retaining those female engineers. The main reason is unrelated to family issues, says a study done at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The Milwaukee Police Department's program, Students Talking it Over with Police (STOP), is a collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee. The program is designed to change perceptions of inner city youth regarding the police. Two UWM professors have been evaluating STOP’s impact and assisting in replication of the program.
A fiber-optic water monitoring system developed by a UWM chemist has helped Milwaukee-based Advanced Chemical Systems win a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. Dougherty licensed the patent from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in January.
Celtic burial mounds in southwest Germany, offer a glimpse of how Iron Age people lived in a time before written records were kept. Using both old-school archaeology and new technology, the researchers were able to reconstruct elements of dress and ornamentation and also social behavior of those aspiring status.
The study is the first to identify a neurobehavioral effect of BPA using a zebrafish model exposed to concentrations comparable to what humans might encounter in the environment.
Scientists and engineers at UWM have discovered an entirely new semiconducting carbon-based material that is synthesized from the “wonder kid” of the carbon family, graphene. It exhibits characteristics that will make it easier to scale up than graphene.
Women who smoke in pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning autism, such as Asperger’s Disorder, according to preliminary findings from a study published online by the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The study is one of several the journal published April 25 on possible environmental links to autism.
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