Daniel Noguera and Katherine McMahon study how anammox bacteria may improve conventional wastewater treatment methods.
Venturelli joins Ionel Popa, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, in receiving a 2017 Shaw Scientist Award.
Erik Wright, an alumnus of Kalin Vetsigian’s Systems Biology theme at WID, is getting his feet wet as a new faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh. He wrote about his career and vision in Science. more…
UW scientists are combining theory with experiment to try to understand how life could arise from lifelike chemical reactions under the right conditions.
James Keck is among eleven UW-Faculty honored.
Randolph Ashton, assistant professor, will use support from a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop spinal tissue that can be easily grown in a laboratory and used by to study disease and personalized medicine.
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.