The first in a series of four videos about stem cell research here at UW–Madison: how it started, what it’s achieved, and where it’s headed. Catch up on what’s happened since James Thomson’s prescient prediction …
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Murphy’s law: Make materials with biology in mind
As an undergraduate student majoring in physics at Illinois Wesleyan University, William Murphy took exactly one biology course: Biology 101. Two decades later, he’s built a career around creating what he calls “bio-inspired” materials such as …
Biomanufacturing projects stepping out at UW-Madison
A series of projects aimed at advancing the human-health and economic impact of biomanufacturing is already benefiting from a new University of Wisconsin–Madison institute aimed at making the state a Midwestern hub of the ongoing …
Manufacturing cells to regenerate tissues, build treatments and cures
Most people don’t think of manufacturing when it comes to biology. But new bioengineering technologies to regenerate human tissue on a commercial scale will be critical to the next phase in stem cell research. There …
Shining light on University- industry collaboration
Launch of the Forward BIO collaboration is a collaborative effort to make Wisconsin a recognized center of excellence for biomanufacturing. This initiative, between campus, a nonprofit lab facility at University Research Park and BioFoward Wisconsin, a …
A $750,000 grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. announced today establishes the Forward BIO Initiative, a collaborative effort to make Wisconsin a recognized center of excellence for biomanufacturing.
“The Forward BIO Initiative will have everything it takes to amplify the impact of Wisconsin’s innovations in biomanufacturing,” said William Murphy, a professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a …
Big Idea: Using plant leaves as scaffolding to grow human cells
Murphy’s team found that leaf structures not only have an “incredible ability” for mass transport, moving and expelling fluids rapidly and efficiently from one end to the other, but that human cells pattern themselves in …
Advance furthers stem cells for use in drug discovery, cell therapy
This week, a UW–Madison team reports in Nature Biomedical Engineering that they have jumped a major hurdle on the path toward wider use of stem cells. Using an automated screening test that they devised, William …
UW-Madison scientists, inspired by old bones, find new strategy for drug delivery
UW-Madison scientists, inspired by proteins found intact in centuries-old human bones, created a mineral coating that mimics bone and appears to keep proteins stable. “What’s needed is a delivery system that remains localized, releases the …
Synthetic alternatives to Matrigel for toxicity screening and stem cell expansion
Arrays of synthetic hydrogels outperforms Matrigel in the screening for vascular-disrupting compounds and in supporting the expansion of human embryonic stem cells. The paper is published in nature biomedical Engineering.