Category: Basic Science
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Posted on December 18, 2017
Scheufele on panel to probe a bedrock principle of science
University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor of Life Sciences Communication Dietram Scheufele has been appointed to a panel investigating reproducibility in science by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. […]
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Posted on December 8, 2017
The “Icing” on the DNA: Xuehua Zhong uses plants to study epigenetics
Xuehua Zhong, an assistant professor of genetics, studies epigenetics, a growing area of research focused on how chemical tags on DNA can change the expression […]
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Posted on November 8, 2017
New model reveals possibility of pumping antibiotics into bacteria
Researchers in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry have discovered that a cellular pump known to move drugs like antibiotics out of E. coli bacteria has […]
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Posted on October 24, 2017
2017 marks centennial of two significant biochemistry department discoveries
The year 1917 — 100 years ago — was a big year for the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, then called the Department of […]
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Posted on October 17, 2017
Fish respond to predator attack by doubling growth rate
Scientists have known for years that when some fish sense predators eating members of their species, they try to depart the scene of the crime […]
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Posted on September 15, 2017
Crystallizing science, one protein at a time
It’s square one. It’s step one. It puts the “basic” in basic science. How ever you describe it, understanding protein structure and function through what’s […]
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Posted on September 13, 2017
Cellular machine assembly process yields new insight into disease, evolution
Think of the cellular machine known as the spliceosome as being like a car. For a car to function properly, its parts have to be […]
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Posted on August 28, 2017
Microbes compete for nutrients, affect metabolism, development in mice
“Gut bacteria get to use a lot of our food before we do,” says Federico Rey, a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Then […]
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Posted on August 23, 2017
UW biochemists decipher final pieces of vitamin D regulatory pathway
Biochemists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have deciphered the molecular mechanisms that underpin how the synthesis of the active form of vitamin D is regulated […]
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Posted on August 21, 2017
Shaping the future of farming: The Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center to serve as an incubator for agricultural improvement
Thirty-five years ago, when CALS bacteriologist Winston Brill and his colleagues set out to exploit science’s newfound ability to manipulate genes to confer new traits […]