The range of passive RFID tags is constrained by three factors. The first is that the reflected energy to the reader rapidly decreases with distance between the reader and the RFID tag both with respe...
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Nitrate is a nutrient that helps plants grow, but too much of it can be harmful. Nitrate monitoring can be used to reduce the amount of fertilizer needed, which is better for the environment and can ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel linker, diazobutanone, for functionalization of phosphate and sulfate containing lipids. The linker, made via a relatively simple two-step process, includ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel profluorophore that binds to lithium ions with high specificity, inducing a fluorescent signal. The fluorescent indicator can be seamlessly integrated int...
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Research into new therapies for skin diseases is challenging for a number of reasons. As is known, skin cells are exposed to both atmospheric air and liquids within the body. However, conventional cel...
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Liquid handling is a critical step in biological assays and typically includes either a reagent addition or solution exchange process. However, it’s challenging to manipulate samples on the microsca...
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Lumens are tubular structures pervasive throughout all body systems. Typical in vitro cell models used by pharmaceutical industries lack the dimensional complexity necessary to mimic lumen structures ...
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Wildfires occur naturally in many ecosystems worldwide; however, the frequency of wildfires has increased in recent years. The United States National Interagency Fire Center reports that the total bur...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a nonionic cleavable surfactant (NCS) for mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics and analysis. Specifically, NCS was designed and synthesized to include a cleava...
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A UW-Madison researcher has developed a celestial guidance system that uses radio imaging of celestial bodies including the galactic plane received by an interferometric antenna array to provide robus...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a set of novel isobaric chemical tags, DiLeu-Biotin-Azide (DBA), that could be useful in proteomics, particularly quantification of post translational modificatio...
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Soil produces or consumes gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia, and oxygen through normal biological and geological processes. Current soil gas-flux measurement systems are ex...
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UW-Madison researchers developed a new process for preparing proteins, lipids, and metabolites for MS-based multi-omics. The process is based on an monophasic extraction solvent (e.g., n-butanol) that...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel mass spectrometry (MS)-based method for simultaneous qualitative and quantitative protein citrullination analysis from biological and clinical samples. Th...
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Coherent light sources, in which the photons have highly matched frequencies and phases, are commonly produced by lasers. In a laser, the atoms of a laser medium are stimulated to excite the electrons...
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UW-Madison and Morgridge Institute researchers have identified developed an improved method for depositing samples on electron microscopy (EM) grids. The technology leverages a modified mass spectrome...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed cell-based DNA sensors to achieve easy, accurate, and cost-effective detection of pathogens. Using synthetic biology, the inventors engineered the naturally compe...
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Building off of their prior discovery (Photo-Cleavable Surfactants P180335US02), UW-Madison researchers disclose an improved method for exosome proteomics. The method leverages the researchers’ phot...
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Building off their earlier work with LC-infused multilayer films, the inventors developed a method for directly infusing LCs into porous PTFE membranes.  The resulting materials have desirable charac...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a well-plate for cell culture that allows the user to finely define the location and temporal profile of multiple gradients including oxygen, nutrients, chemoattr...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed improved methods and systems for characterizing soil using visible-near-infrared spectroscopy (vis-NIRS) data. Combining their spectrographic data with additional...
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UW-Madison researchers and collaborators from Wesleyan University have shown, using an exceptional point (EP)-based PT-symmetric electromechanical accelerometer, that increases in technical noise can ...
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UW researchers have invented a Cesium Lattice Optical Clock (CLOC) for high performance and simple operation in a compact form factor. The novel design uses a “forbidden” optical transition in Cs ...
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A UW-Madison researcher has developed a method for predicting subsurface mechanical properties using distributed strain measurements obtained from applied perturbations. The method relies on model cha...
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UW-Madison researchers, working in collaboration with researchers from Cornell, developed metal-oxide based liquid crystal (LC) sensors for monitoring catalytic reactions. The inventors used a previou...
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