Using lab-grown human neurons, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an effective assay for detecting botulinum neurotoxin, the agent widely used to cosmetically […]

Last fall, the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison bid successfully for the same National Institutes of Health core grant that the late Harry […]

In just nine weeks this past summer, senior Katie Kennedy tackled an important food safety research project, one that may change the way some large […]

Marcin Filutowicz stumbled upon a potentially powerful biotherapy—using amoebas that feast on antibiotic-resistant bacteria to cure such ills as staph infections and diabetic ulcers.

The UW-Madison community is mourning the loss of a legend: James F. Crow, professor emeritus of genetics, who passed away peacefully at his home on […]

Unicellular amoebas aggregate to form “slugs,” structures that allow these organisms  to travel en masse – about 1 million of them per “slug” – to […]

Bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz specializes in developing antimicrobial technologies that one day may help replace antibiotics—and save lives—as the power of our antibiotics arsenal wanes. But […]

CALS biochemistry professor Richard Amasino is among three University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers who have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of […]