Category: Highlights
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Posted on September 9, 2013
Five things everybody should know about hazelnuts
1. They’re crazy nutritious and gluten-free. Hazelnuts are rich in vitamins (particularly vitamin E and B-complex groups of vitamins, including folates, riboflavin, niacin, thiamin) as […]
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Posted on August 26, 2013
Unprecedented genome editing control in flies promises insight into human development, disease
In an era of widespread genetic sequencing, the ability to edit and alter an organism’s DNA is a powerful way to explore the information within […]
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Posted on August 12, 2013
Happy cows everywhere
Amy Stanton joined CALS and UW-Extension in 2012 as a dairy science professor with particular expertise in animal well-being. Prior to joining CALS she was […]
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Posted on August 5, 2013
Better Fishing and Hunting: CALS undergrads apply ingenuity to classic Wisconsin pursuits
When his grandfather would complain to him about the difficulty of fishing on choppy days out on Green Bay, biological systems engineering student Justin Vannieuwenhoven […]
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Posted on July 15, 2013
Getting to the heart of a problem: Research sheds light on dilated cardiomyopathy
When Marion Greaser set out to study titin, the largest natural protein known to man, his goal was to answer some basic questions about its […]
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Posted on June 14, 2013
Potato industry helps create new professorship to lead UW’s potato breeding program
Advances in biotechnology such as DNA sequencing have helped speed the pace of plant breeding in many food crops, but applying these tools to the […]
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Posted on June 13, 2013
Researchers unearth bioenergy potential in leaf-cutter ant communities
As spring warms up Wisconsin, humans aren’t the only ones tending their gardens. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology, colonies of leaf-cutter ants […]
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Posted on June 3, 2013
Q&A: Rural poverty is hidden and growing
While the word “poverty” may evoke images of blighted city neighborhoods, poverty levels actually are higher in rural counties. But rural poverty tends to be […]
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Posted on May 20, 2013
CALS experts offer help to former prison farm that feeds the needy
Wisconsin has hundreds of diversified, fresh market vegetable operations, but there’s one on the outskirts of Franklin that’s in a class by itself. Most of the state’s […]
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Posted on May 6, 2013
Decline in snow cover spells trouble for many plants, animals
For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable […]