McArdle facutly member Dr. Bill Dove, senior author on the paper. If caught early, nearly all cases of colon cancer are curable. Though this should make screening tests straightforward, colon cancer screening suffers from a paradoxical combination …
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Colon cancer researchers awarded $3M grant to study ways to personalize therapies
A five-year, $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute will support UW Carbone Cancer Center physician-researcher and McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research faculty member Dr. Dusty Deming and colleagues in their pursuit of more effective treatments for colorectal-cancer patients. …
Grandparents and grandchildren explore basic cancer research at the McArdle Laboratory
On July 12-13, the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research in collaboration with the Institute for Molecular Virology (IMV) and Carbone Cancer Center welcomed 31 grandparents and their grandchildren into the lab to learn about fundamental …
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Sometimes cancer development is not just about a cell having mutations in its DNA, but about when and how those mutations change the cell’s behavior. UW Carbone Cancer Center member Peter Lewis, PhD, studies how …
Family Crafters Create Amazing Goods to Support Cancer Research
A sampling of the goods created by the Family Crafters In Brillion, WI, an amazing family works throughout the year to create craft goods to sell at farmers’ markets, craft shows, and grocery stores. Together, …
Xing Lab Study Shows How Key Regulatory Protein Complexes Break Up
Dr. Yongna Xing with lead author Cheng-Guo Wu A new study by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers identified the structural basis for how tightly bound protein complexes are broken apart to become inactivated. The structure explains …
McArdle Scientists Receive Outstanding Investigator Awards
Left: a papillomavirus. Right: dioxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (AHRs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). PAS proteins regulate a variety of downstream responses to these three molecules, some of which are toxic effects. McArdle is pleased to announce …
Ahlquist Lab Discovers Promising New Target for Antiviral Approaches
Scientists at the Morgridge Institute for Research have discovered a promising new target to fight a class of viruses responsible for health threats such as Zika, polio, dengue, SARS and hepatitis C. Masaki Nishikiori, a researcher in …
In Memoriam — Günter Blobel (1936-2018)
A stone dedicated by Blobel to his mentor Van Potter outside the McArdle Laboratory Building (1400 University Ave) The McArdle Laboratory mourns the loss of Günter Blobel, Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist who discovered and characterized how …
Department of Oncology Offering New Bioinformatics Course
This spring, the University of Wisconsin is offering a new course for graduate students within the Cancer Biology Training Program and other biology graduate programs to effectively apply bioinformatics approaches to their research. The course, …