Category: Health and Wellness
- Posted on August 19, 2010
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Posted on August 16, 2010
The Catch
Fish are good for you—except when they’re bad. How a legacy of environmental contamination continues to haunt one of our healthiest foods, and what we can do to fix it.
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Posted on August 3, 2010
Scott Rankin
Scott Rankin is a member of the state’s Raw Milk Policy Working Group. He is an expert on dairy foods processing and chemistry, key fields […]
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GardenFit helps kids pare summer weight gain
After spending the morning spreading hay mulch and bark at Madison’s East High Youth Farm, a group of middle-schoolers lined up for a well-deserved lunch. […]
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The Pathogen Path: Scientist tracks how bacteria hitch ride on plants to get to humans
To dine with Jeri Barak is to take a lesson in applied food safety. Barak, an assistant professor of plant pathology, begins by sorting through […]
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Confronting toxic blue-green algae in Madison lakes
Harmful algal blooms, once considered mainly a problem in salt water, have been appearing with increasing severity in the Madison lakes, and a team of […]
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Posted on July 19, 2010
‘Condor’ brings genome assembly down to Earth
Borrowing computing power from idle sources will help geneticists sidestep the multimillion-dollar cost of reconstituting the flood of data produced by next-generation genome-sequencing machines. A […]
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Posted on July 12, 2010
Jack Newman
As senior vice president of research at Amyris Biotechnologies, Jack Newman PhD’01 is focused on some of the world’s biggest problems. He co-founded the company […]
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Posted on July 10, 2010
Kathy Glass
As head of the Applied Food Safety Lab at the UW-Madison Food Research Institute, Glass helps food companies from Wisconsin and around the nation deal […]
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Posted on July 9, 2010
Huichuan Lai
Associate Professor Huichuan Lai began exploring the link between nutrition and cystic fibrosis in 1994, when she spent a year working in UW-Madison’s pediatric pulmonary […]