Category: Health and Wellness
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Posted on January 17, 2012
Amoeba biotherapy: New approach to combat intractable bacterial infections
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.
- Posted on January 11, 2012
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Posted on January 6, 2012
UW geneticist James Crow passes away
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 […]
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Posted on December 27, 2011
Amoebas form multi-cellular “slugs” on petri dish
Unicellular amoebas aggregate to form “slugs,” structures that allow these organisms to travel en masse – about 1 million of them per “slug” – to […]
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Marcin Filutowicz
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 […]
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Posted on December 13, 2011
CALS biochemist honored as AAAS fellow
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 […]
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Posted on December 5, 2011
Pioneering molecular biologist, formerly at UW-Madison, passes away
Masayasu Nomura, a molecular biologist who studied the structure that forms proteins inside cells at University of Wisconsin-Madison between 1963 and 1984, passed away on […]
- Posted on November 16, 2011
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Posted on November 11, 2011
Biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, whose UW work earned Nobel prize, dies at 89
Biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, who received the Nobel Prize for research he conducted while at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Wednesday, Nov. 9 in Concord, […]