Biochemistry senior Timothy Guthrie knows that science and success are about small steps. It’s those tiny strides that drive him to excel both in the […]

It’s springtime in Wisconsin again. Home gardeners and farmers are busy tending to their beds and fields, relishing the fresh, green sprouts of flowers, vegetables and […]

In the Microbial Sciences Building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the incredibly efficient eating habits of a fungus-cultivating termite are surprising even to those well […]

There are many processes that take place in cells that are essential for life. Two of these, transcription and translation, allow the genetic information stored […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has been a part of graduate student Taylor Keding’s life as long as he can remember.  His childhood favorite, Bill […]

Bacteria, like humans and animals, must eat. Sometimes, they consume a pollutant in the environment that humans want to get rid of, a process called […]

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have made a surprising and potentially crucial discovery about Alexander disease, a rare and fatal neurological disorder with no […]

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 […]

They sell holiday roasts and turkeys, fix lawn mowers and snowblowers for the public, grow and give away fruits and vegetables and volunteer in school […]

Imagine having your car towed to the shop for unknown repairs, and watching a trusted local mechanic pop the hood and take a ponderous look […]