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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

After five years working as a metabolic dietitian at Emory University, where she helped patients with PKU, MSUD and other metabolic disorders, Lesperance Stelton began […]

A new study is the first to provide concrete evidence for a long-hypothesized system for generating animal color patterns, be they stripes, spots or any of the myriad designs animals use to camouflage themselves or find a mate.

Writing in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week (Jan. 11), scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California-Irvine present a new model of stem cell regulation.