When Max Haase set out for a walk in Green Bay’s Baird Creek Nature Preserve on a May day in 2015, it was pretty normal […]

In the Microbial Sciences Building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the incredibly efficient eating habits of a fungus-cultivating termite are surprising even to those well […]

Wisconsin is known as America’s Dairyland. More than one-third of all the cows in United States live on more than 3,000 farms in Wisconsin. Those […]

A $10 million commercial biotech plant laboratory in Middleton, Wisconsin, first opened in 1982 with the help of University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists, will soon become […]

Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center Shawn Kaeppler, Professor Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences smkaeppl@facstaff.wisc.edu (608) 262-9571 FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://cropinnovation.cals.wisc.edu/ 3:06 […]

For James Steele, moving from the small fermenters where microbes make cheese, wine and beer to the multimillion-gallon tanks where corn is converted to ethanol […]

When scientists reported in 2014 that they had successfully engineered a poplar plant “designed for deconstruction,” the finding made international news. The highly degradable poplar, […]

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin­–Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which […]

It’s easy to root for Greg Desjarlais, a recent participant in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program offered by the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research […]

If you’re made of carbon, precious few things are as important to life as death. A dead tree may represent a literal windfall of the […]