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Eleven faculty recognized with Kellett Mid-Career Awards

March 30, 2017 January 2, 2018

James Keck is among eleven UW-Faculty honored.

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Engineer aims to grow spinal tissue in lab

March 21, 2017 December 26, 2017

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.

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Eleven professors receive Romnes Faculty Fellowships

March 14, 2017 January 2, 2018

Jennifer Reed among eleven honored.

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UW startup bringing high-speed gene sequencing to water purity tests

January 26, 2017 January 2, 2018

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.

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Watching gene editing at work to develop precision therapies

January 24, 2017 December 26, 2017

A new technique called CRISPR-Cas9 gives researchers the ability to make changes to the DNA of, theoretically, any living organism that has DNA.

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Byzantine skeleton yields 800-year-old genomes from a fatal infection

January 10, 2017 January 2, 2018

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.

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Gasch and Schoville featured in eCals Outreach Story

December 1, 2016 December 1, 2016

UW scientists, students give a boost to science education in local schools

UW–Madison researchers study plant aging, gain insights into crop yields

November 22, 2016 January 2, 2018

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.

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Wisconsin Institute for Discovery director search narrows to 5

November 1, 2016 January 2, 2018

Candidates include Robert Landick.

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“Super yeast” has the power to improve economics of biofuels

October 26, 2016 December 26, 2017

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.

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