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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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Posted on May 12, 2017
    How AgrAbility helps Wisconsin Farmers – Audio
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    Abigail 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]