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Caitlin Carlson, Associate Research Specialist Department of Bacteriology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences cmcarlson5@wisc.edu 3:01 – Total Time 0:14 – What is bioprospecting […]

The community of microorganisms that resides in the gut, known as the microbiome, has been shown to work in tandem with the genes of a […]

So many things typically distinguish accomplished athletes from the rest of us—greater strength and endurance, better balance, faster reactions—but one of the more surprising differences […]

We are not alone. Each of us carries a wide array of microbial species that outnumber our cells tenfold. Recent studies have shown that the […]

As more antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” emerge, it’s clear that we desperately need new antimicrobial drugs. Yet, over the past couple of decades, antibiotic discovery has largely […]

The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) will usher in a new year with a new director: Jo Handelsman, a Yale University professor and the associate […]

In our guts, and in the guts of all animals, resides a robust ecosystem of microbes known as the microbiome. Consisting of trillions of organisms […]

Of the many elusive grails of agricultural biotechnology, the ability to confer nitrogen fixation into non-leguminous plants such as cereals ranks near the very top. […]

Jue “Jade” Wang, an associate professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Faculty Scholar. The […]

When a cell makes copies of DNA and translates its genetic code into proteins at the same time, the molecular machinery that carries on replication […]