Two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors will receive 2012 Shaw Scientist Awards, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation announced on May 30. Mehle Chosen by a panel of […]

University of Wisconsin-Madison plant breeders have developed a new oat variety that’s significantly higher in the compound that makes this grain so cardio-friendly. “The biggest […]

A new study reveals a dazzling degree of biological diversity in an unexpected place — a single neural connection in the body wall of flies. […]

Katrina Forest, professor of bacteriology, and John Hawks, associate chair of anthropology, have been selected by the Institute for Biology Education as Howard Hughes Medical […]

The future of disease diagnosis may lie in a “breathalyzer”-like technology currently under development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. New research published online in February […]

The annual celebration of Charles Darwin’s birthday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will highlight the evolutionary significance of strange life forms, including the octopus and […]

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 […]