What does a healthy diet look like? That question will be easier to answer with the help of the new MyPlate website and consumer materials […]

Science teachers will have a unique opportunity to get inside evolution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which has a long history of evolutionary researchers. A […]

Children are packing on pounds during a season once associated with outdoor activity and exercise. Addressing that problem means confronting a number of factors that are contributing to poor health in our children.

Three highly regarded neuroscientists – two Nobel Prize winners and a National Medal of Science winner – will be on campus Thursday, May 19, to […]

MADISON – Ching Kung, Vilas Professor of Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences […]

As Wisconsin struggles with unemployment and anemic growth, a group of health-related university spin-offs continues to benefit from UW-Madison’s profound depth in biological sciences, medicine […]

Four University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members are among a list of pre-eminent scholars and leaders newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. […]

1. They plagued the Neanderthals Bedbugs have been a problem for humans since prehistory, and it is speculated that they originated from caves that our […]

Nicole Perna, an associate professor of genetics, leads the UW-Madison Genome Evolution Laboratory. The lab seeks to develop and apply computational and experimental tools to […]