Category: Health and Wellness
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Posted on June 8, 2017
Lactation sensation: Laura Hernandez works to improve milk production, for the benefit of both cows and humans
When the city girl decides to study lactation, she must first learn to milk a cow. Laura Hernandez, an assistant professor of dairy science at CALS, […]
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Posted on June 6, 2017
WARF and UW–Madison ranked sixth among universities in U.S. utility patents in 2016
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), which serves as the designated patent management organization for the University of Wisconsin–Madison, moved up to sixth place among […]
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Posted on June 5, 2017
D-Day invasion was bolstered by UW–Madison penicillin project
Seventy-three years ago Tuesday, on June 6, 1944, the D-Day invasion of Normandy was bolstered by millions of doses of a precious new substance: penicillin. […]
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Posted on May 30, 2017
Adventures in global health
When it comes to study abroad experiences, an elephant ride in Thailand is pretty hard to beat. “The entire time we were around the elephants, […]
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Posted on May 18, 2017
UW-Madison biochemist wins Shaw Scientist Award
Ophelia Venturelli, assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is one of two researchers in the University of Wisconsin System to earn seed […]
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Posted on May 17, 2017
New clues to healthy bones for those with PKU
Certain kinds of foods prescribed to manage the rare metabolic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU) could contribute to skeletal fragility seen in many PKU patients, according to […]
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Posted on May 12, 2017
How AgrAbility helps Wisconsin Farmers – Audio
/RSS FeedAbigail Jensen, AgrAbility Outreach Specialist Department of Biological Systems Engineering UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences ajensen6@wisc.edu (608) 262-9336 3:09 – Total Time 0:23 […]
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Posted on April 25, 2017
Advances breathe new life into Madison infection-detection company
In the face of growing crises related to antibiotic resistance and hospital-acquired infections, a UW–Madison spinoff called Isomark is working to introduce a new infection-detection […]
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Posted on April 17, 2017
Study finds amoeba “grazing,” killing bacteria usually protected by film
Bacteria have developed an uncountable number of chemistries, lifestyles, attacks and defenses through 2.5 billion years of evolution. One of the most impressive defenses is […]
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Posted on April 14, 2017
Bacterial supermachine reveals streamlined protein assembly line
There are many processes that take place in cells that are essential for life. Two of these, transcription and translation, allow the genetic information stored […]