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Five Energizing Facts About Agrivoltaics

In the quest to combat climate change, the idea of using agricultural landscapes in the Midwest to support renewable energy production has focused primarily on building wind farms and growing plant feedstocks for biofuels. Another option, called agrivoltaics, represents a new opportunity to support farmers, increase diversity in agricultural landscapes, and facilitate energy production.

By |2023-11-06T08:31:59-06:00November 6th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Five Energizing Facts About Agrivoltaics

Here’s to responsible innovation

The role that ethics will play in this brave new world, and what it portends for human welfare, was the topic of a recent Wisconsin Technology Council luncheon in Madison. So was the role that a new Responsible Innovation Hub established by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery will play in ethical technology development.

By |2023-07-19T16:31:57-05:00July 19th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Here’s to responsible innovation

UW researchers will develop gene editing therapy to treat blindness

Over the next five years, the collaborative project will use the $29 million NIH grant to merge new drug delivery systems with advanced genome CRISPR technology, innovating new treatments for Best Disease (BD) and Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), both of which are currently untreatable hereditary diseases.

By |2023-06-12T08:01:51-05:00June 12th, 2023|News|Comments Off on UW researchers will develop gene editing therapy to treat blindness
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