It”s no secret that Americans eat too much salt, a habit linked to numerous health problems. At first glance, the solution seems simple: stop eating […]

This Saturday, as hunters seek white-tailed deer in Wisconsin”s forested areas, a research team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Susan Paskewitz will be conducting […]

As the southern pine beetle moves through the forest boring tunnels inside the bark of trees, it brings with it both a helper and a competitor. The helper is a fungus that the insect plants inside the tunnels as food for its young. But also riding along is a tiny, hitchhiking mite, which likewise carries a fungus for feeding its own larvae.

Susan Paskewitz aims to find out how many of the mosquitoes that plague us spring through fall are of the genus that carryies the West Nile Virus

When forming attitudes about embryonic stem cell research, people are influenced by a number of things. But understanding science plays a negligible role for many people.

A crisp new edition of a classic biochemistry text is now available from booksellers in college towns and online. And that means a team of UW-Madison scientists and illustrators campus can put their feet up for a while.

The structure of the life sciences industry is changing, says G. Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill and Company, a life sciences investment firm based in San Francisco, speaking at UW-Madison on Feb. 21

In an effort to expand dietary options for individuals with a rare genetic condition known as phenylketonuria, a team of UW-Madison scientists is assessing a unique protein found only in whey, the liquid byproduct of cheese-making, that appears to be safe for this group to eat.

When biochemist Karl Paul Link examined a sample of bad forage, he discovered what would become one of the world’s best-known blood-thinning drugs

Julie Mitchell, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and the Department of Mathematics, is one of several UW-Madison faculty members featured in a video […]