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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A UW researcher has developed a digital system for controlling pressure oscillations within a wellbore, as well as associated monitoring equipment and analysis codes. The equipment includes a wellhead...
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Fluorescent microscopes, including wide-field, confocal and super-resolution, are widely used instruments in a variety of research fields but require routine calibration and maintenance. Calibration r...
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Single particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful tool for providing 3-D structural information on non-crystalline specimens. Cryo-EM approaches atomic level resolution, enabling many n...
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Single particle cryo-electron microscopy is a powerful tool for providing 3-D structural information on non-crystalline specimens. Cryo-EM approaches atomic level resolution, enabling many new biologi...
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Single particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful tool for providing 3-D structural information on non-crystalline specimens. Cryo-EM approaches atomic level resolution, enabling many n...
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Light microscopy is a well-established tool to study protein dynamics and protein functions in fixed and living cells. One limitation of light microscopy is that its diffraction limit (optical resolut...
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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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A UW-Madison researcher has developed an improved method and associated system for coherent multidimensional spectroscopy (CMDS). CMDS is based on the formation of Schrӧdinger cat states by exciting ...
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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’ ...
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Soft materials are everywhere. In many applications, valuable information about the strength of these materials enables more precise control in everything from cutting and processing soft foods to des...
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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 ch...
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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 transitio...
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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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UW–Madison researchers have combined the innate sensing capabilities of biological compounds with the power of electronics to create a hybrid “bio-electronic” network. This enables new biosensor...
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UW Madison researchers have devised a simplified super-resolution microscope with resolving features smaller than the diffraction limits of the optical system. The new super-resolution microscope expl...
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A device and a method for isolating a target from a biological sample are provided. The target is bound to solid phase substrate to form target bound solid phase substrate. The device includes a lower...
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