Category: Basic Science
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Posted on October 15, 2018
Forgotten molecules: The fruits of an emeritus professor’s 40-year career in biochemistry are contributing to the modern search for new medications
On a rainy day last fall, chemist Scott Wildman left his office on the UW– Madison campus and drove to a retirement community on the city’s west […]
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Posted on October 11, 2018
Biochemistry’s Vatsan Raman earns prestigious NIH Award to fund research on protein function
Biochemistry assistant professor Srivatsan “Vatsan” Raman has received a Director’s New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The $2.2 million-grants fund high-risk, high-reward research performed by early stage […]
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Posted on October 2, 2018
Set in amber, fossil ants help reconstruct evolution of fungus farming
Some 50 million years before humans figured it out, agriculture arrived in the world in a seemingly unlikely place: an ant hill. Eschewing wheat or […]
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Posted on September 28, 2018
In dangerous fungal family’s befriending of plants, a story of loss
If Lewis Carroll had described in detail the mushroom Alice nibbles in Wonderland to shrink and grow to her rightful size, he might have noted […]
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Posted on August 31, 2018
Dean VandenBosch op-ed: Curiosity-driven research at UW-Madison unearths nitrogen-fixing corn
When I was in graduate school in the early 1980s, I remember hearing Winston Brill, a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on […]
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Posted on August 8, 2018
Combining on and off switches, one protein can control flowering in plants
As plants stretch toward the summer sun, they are marching toward one of the most important decisions of their lives — when to flower. Too […]
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Posted on August 7, 2018
Scientists identify corn that fixes its own nitrogen, needing less fertilizer
A public-private collaboration of researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of California, Davis, and Mars Inc., have identified varieties of tropical corn from […]
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Posted on June 26, 2018
Dynamic modeling helps predict the behaviors of gut microbes
The human gut is teeming with microbes, each interacting with one another in a mind-boggling network of positive and negative exchanges. Some produce substances that […]
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Posted on June 5, 2018
Two professors receive Shaw Scientist Awards to support innovative research
University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemistry assistant professor Philip Romero and neuroscience assistant professor Ari Rosenberg are the recipients of 2018 Shaw Scientist Awards from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. The awards […]
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Posted on May 29, 2018
Morgridge Institute announces Rowe Center for Research in Virology
The Morgridge Institute for Research is launching the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Center for Research in Virology, a research effort to understand and […]