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  • Posted on November 29, 2010
    Science Nation: Leaf cutter ants

    CALS bacteriologists Cameron Currie and Tim Donohue are featured in this NSF video about leaf cutter ants.

  • Posted on November 22, 2010
    UW Dietetics Club on WBUW, Pt II

    Students in the UW Dietetics and Nutrition Club share some healthy recipes.

  • Posted on November 18, 2010
    Scientists ferret out a key pathway for aging

    For decades, scientists have been searching for the fundamental biological secrets of how eating less extends lifespan. It has been well documented in species ranging […]

  • Posted on November 15, 2010
    UW Dietetics Club on WBUW, Pt I

    Students in the UW Dietetics and Nutrition Club describe club activities.

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    Barb Ingham

    Ingham is an associate professor of food science, as well as an extension food scientist with UW-Extension. She studies issues that relate to consumer perceptions […]

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    Embryonic stem cell culturing grows from art to science

    Growing human embryonic stem cells in the lab is no small feat. Culturing the finicky, shape-shifting cells is labor intensive and, in some ways, more […]

  • Posted on November 2, 2010
    CALS students help make “genetic machines” for international competition

    As yogurt and other products are marketed as a method for improving health, young biologists at University of Wisconsin-Madison are trying to do something similar […]

  • Posted on September 27, 2010
  • Posted on September 13, 2010
    UW-Madison’s Go Big Read program starts another year

    Last year’s freshman year of Go Big Read, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s common-reading program, was a success, as the campus and community read, discussed and, […]

  • Posted on September 9, 2010
    Telltale Chemistry

    The earliest signs of illness and disease show up in your body’s metabolites. Now scientists are figuring out how to track these molecules—and they’re changing medicine in the process.