A new UW-Madison finding that pregnant women who take some types of vitamin supplements or eat fortified foods may be passing excess vitamin A to their developing fetuses could guide efforts to develop future formulations of vitamins.

When the University of Wisconsin football Badgers take the field this fall, they will have a secret weapon behind them: Wisconsin’s dairy cows. Sure, they might not run very well or catch a football, but cows supply one of the key ingredients in a sports recovery drink that the Badgers use to bounce back from strenuous workouts and practices.

Building creates an environment that encourages the cross-disciplinary work and discussion that can help solve problems and advance research

A study of the reproductive apparatus of a model virus is bolstering the idea that broad classes of viruses – including those that cause important human diseases such as AIDS, SARS and hepatitis C – have features in common that could eventually make them vulnerable to broad-spectrum antiviral agents.

Susan Smith, a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a prestigious MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health, which provides research funding for up to 10 years. Smith is an expert on fetal alcohol exposure, the leading known cause of mental retardation in the world.

MADISON – A study of the reproductive apparatus of a model virus is bolstering the idea that broad classes of viruses – including those that […]

The rogue proteins that cause chronic wasting disease exhibit a dramatic increase in their infectious nature when bound to common soil particles, according to a new study.

Members of the Dietetics and Nutrition Club help kids make edible jewelry from food purchased at the Dane County Farmers Market.

On May 14 Governor Jim Doyle gave a $1 million boost to a UW-Madison spin-off company during a visit to the campus lab of Gabriela Cezar, an assistant professor of animal sciences whose research on embryonic stem cells spawned the company.

For the growing number of people with diminished immune systems – cancer patients, transplant recipients, those with HIV/AIDS – infection by a ubiquitous mold known as Aspergillus fumigatus can be a death sentence. Now, however, scientists may have found a master switch, an uber gene, that seems to control the mold’s ability to make poison.