For years, scientists have used mouse embryonic stem cells as a window to the mysteries of early development. In more recent times, the vast biomedical potential of human stem cells has sparked the public imagination and held out hope for millions of people with chronic cell-based diseases.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Babcock dairy plant will no longer certify that its fluid milk supplies come from herds that avoid use of supplemental bovine somatotropin (BST).

Katrina Forest has been selected as one of five W.M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research for 2001. Forest, an assistant professor of bacteriology at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, will receive $1 million over a five-year period to study proteins involved in the common early steps of bacterial infection in humans.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are looking for rural Wisconsin women newly diagnosed with breast cancer for a study. The study will evaluate how successfully computers and the internet can be used to help women face this life-threatening disease.

Milk is more than a good source of protein, calcium, and vitamin D. It can be a good source of valuable medical foods, says a University of Wisconsin-Madison food scientist.

A short stroll along Linden Drive and down Henry Mall takes visitors past the sites of some of the biggest scientific achievements of the past century. Those locations are no longer anonymous, thanks to a series of 19 plaques that highlights accomplishments at the UW-Madison”s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

If you’re supplementing phosphorus in a typical Wisconsin dairy diet, you’re probably feeding too much of the mineral. Cutting back on supplementation won’t hurt production or herd health, and you’ll be doing a favor for water quality, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center.

University of Wisconsin-Madison forest scientists are heading into Canada to determine how fires in the great boreal forest alter its uptake and release of carbon dioxide. Their findings will help policymakers understand the region’s role in global warming.

Research on baby pigs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may soon help doctors improve the way they care for premature infants.

Applied agricultural and natural resources research in Wisconsin will get a big boost in the next four years because College of Agricultural and Life Sciences researchers and extension specialists at University of Wisconsin-Madison scored high in a new U.S. Department of Agriculture grants competition.