Category: Health and Wellness
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Posted on July 7, 2023
Ticks may be able to spread chronic wasting disease between Wisconsin deer
A new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison finds that ticks can harbor transmissible amounts of the protein particle that causes chronic wasting […]
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Posted on July 3, 2023
Cryo-EM studies reveal the ‘high-wire act’ of bacterial replication
Bacteria have a replication problem. In nearly every attempt to copy their genome, some kind of glitch — it could be exposure to UV light, or an […]
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Posted on June 30, 2023
From hardship to hope: Team from CALS and Extension cultivates communities that can contend with farm stress together
Leon Statz used to get stressed about almost everything on his Sauk County farm. He worried about the weather, the bills, the crops. And when […]
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Bacteria with a taste for an inflammatory compound could help protect against heart disease
Some microbes in the guts of humans and mice may help control the buildup of plaque in arteries, the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, by […]
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Posted on June 15, 2023
OGRAIN field days to showcase innovations in organic grain and forage production
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Organic Grain Resource and Information Network (OGRAIN) will host a series of four field days this summer highlighting innovations in the […]
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Posted on June 12, 2023
Death cap mushroom’s invasion success may be linked to newly documented variability of toxin genes
It’s a cold, wet day in 2015 and Anne Pringle is scouring the understory of a Northern California forest for the unassuming organism that has […]
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Posted on May 22, 2023
New video series gives taste of organic ag research, grad student training at UW
In 2020, an anonymous donation to the University of Wisconsin–Madison funded the creation of the UW Organic Collaborative, a group of faculty, staff and partners […]
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Chilean ag minister visits UW–Madison to establish educational and scientific partnerships
On Thursday, May 18, Esteban Valenzuela, minister of agriculture of Chile, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UW–Madison leaders, a document showing the parties’ good […]
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Posted on May 17, 2023
Horticulture department serves up a satiating course on Indigenous foodways
On a frigid February afternoon, around 60 UW students gather near Dejope Residence Hall on the west end of campus. Their modern gear protects them […]
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Posted on May 9, 2023
Biochemistry’s Judith Simcox named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
If you walk into the office of biochemistry Professor Judith Simcox — named today to the first cohort of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski […]