A fledgling company that emerged from the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering promises to change that by applying high-speed genetic sequencing to the difficult problem of detecting — and for the first time counting — these pathogens.
A new technique called CRISPR-Cas9 gives researchers the ability to make changes to the DNA of, theoretically, any living organism that has DNA.
Caitlin Pepperell studies the skeleton of a woman who died 800 years ago on the outskirts of the ancient city of Troy in modern Turkey has yielded the first record of maternal sepsis in the fossil record.
Xuehua Zhong and her colleagues describe how an epigenetic protein complex acts as a link between the environment and the genome to promoting the onset of aging in plants.
It took 10 months and hundreds of generations of “directed evolution” for Sato and his colleagues, including co-corresponding authors Robert Landick, a UW–Madison professor of biochemistry, and Audrey Gasch, a UW– Madison professor of genetics, to create a strain of S. cerevisiae that could ferment xylose.
The atlas is possibly the most exhaustive proteomic inventory of any kind to date.
Instead of exploring proteins one at a time, the study shows the efficacy of looking at them by the hundreds.
John Pool featured in CALs news: Fruit flies help explain differences between males and females.