Research

Researchers have long known that the COVID-19 vaccine protects individuals against severe illness. But a study analyzing data from the pandemic finds that the vaccine actually reduces the spread of the disease between vaccinated people and their close contacts.

A University of Wisconsin Board of Regents committee has signed off on a $13.5 million expansion of a planned cyclotron particle accelerator research facility that will create radioactive isotopes used in cancer research, detection and treatment.

A week before students return to campus, a UW-Milwaukee neuroscientist said she has to call the students back “and tell them, ‘Oh, sorry, this is actually now not happening.’”

A pair of UW researchers spoke with WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” about the latest in treatment, prevention and early detection of breast cancer.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota are recommending that wake boats stay in deeper waters when wake surfing to avoid any harm to the lake bottom and water quality.

According to a Wisconsin clinical pharmacist, advancements in epilepsy treatment research include genetics, medical devices and prescription CBD.

Alzheimer’s disease studies at UW-Madison rely on university buildings and services funded by threatened NIH “indirect cost” awards, researchers said.

Wisconsin researchers said federal funding delays have lingering effects, including fewer graduate trainees arriving on campus this fall.

Researchers have identified a species of cyanobacteria in the Duluth-Superior harbor that’s capable of producing harmful algal blooms, which may lead to better monitoring or management.

Neurosurgeon and professor Mahua Dey is concerned her team’s effort to develop a glioblastoma vaccine at UW-Madison could stall as sweeping actions by the Trump administration to curb federal health funding trickle down to individual labs.