Category: Basic Science
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Posted on August 2, 2016
UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative winners include CALS-led projects
Fourteen research and infrastructure projects – including four with CALS participants – have been selected by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor […]
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Biochemistry’s Ansari Lab develops strategy to irreversibly inhibit kinases
Scientists now have a tool to study kinases — cellular machines that function as “information relays” to transfer signals or messages from one molecule to […]
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Posted on July 22, 2016
New UW-Madison center offers ultra-speed protein analysis
Three University of Wisconsin—Madison researchers have won a prestigious, five-year grant to establish the National Center for Quantitative Biology of Complex Systems, which will develop […]
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Posted on July 7, 2016
Lessons of lager: Yeast origin becomes a complex tale
Without question, the domesticated hybrid yeast that gives us lager beer is an organism worth many billions of dollars. Beer is the world’s most commonly […]
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Posted on June 29, 2016
Collisions during DNA replication and transcription contribute to mutagenesis
When a cell makes copies of DNA and translates its genetic code into proteins at the same time, the molecular machinery that carries on replication […]
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Posted on June 22, 2016
Judith Kimble serves on steering committee of Rescuing Biomedical Research
Judith Kimble, a Vilas Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is working as a member of the […]
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Posted on June 20, 2016
Research may point to new ways to deliver drugs into bacteria
An exhaustive look at how bacteria hold their ground and avoid getting pushed around by their environment shows how dozens of genes aid the essential […]
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Posted on June 1, 2016
Media advisory: International Conference on Quantitative Genetics in Madison June 12-17
Quantitative genetics researchers from around the globe are set to gather in Madison, Wisconsin June 12-17 for the 5th International Conference on Quantitative Genetics (ICQG5). […]
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Posted on May 23, 2016
Joel Pedersen: Exploring the unknowns of nanomaterials
Although so tiny they are invisible, it’s easy to see that nanomaterials are becoming a big thing. There are odor-fighting socks and antibacterial dishrags impregnated […]
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Posted on May 18, 2016
UW technology key to growth as firm stays in Madison long after sale
Epicentre, a Madison firm that prospered by licensing a biological discovery from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, continues to grow here five years after being sold […]