UW scientists, students give a boost to science education in local schools
Eleven faculty recognized with Kellett Mid-Career Awards
James Keck is among eleven UW-Faculty honored.
Engineer aims to grow spinal tissue in lab
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.
UW startup bringing high-speed gene sequencing to water purity tests
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.
Watching gene editing at work to develop precision therapies
A new technique called CRISPR-Cas9 gives researchers the ability to make changes to the DNA of, theoretically, any living organism that has DNA.
Byzantine skeleton yields 800-year-old genomes from a fatal infection
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.
UW–Madison researchers study plant aging, gain insights into crop yields
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.
“Super yeast” has the power to improve economics of biofuels
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.