Scientists have demonstrated the potential for softwoods to process more easily into pulp and paper if engineered to incorporate a key feature of hardwoods. The […]

From Howard Temin’s Nobel Prize-winning discovery of reverse transcriptase to James Thomson’s isolation of viable human stem cells, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has long enjoyed […]

The body makes it seem so simple. You take a bite of supper, and the black-box machinery of metabolism hums into life, transforming food into fuel […]

Generally it’s a bad thing to be called a “hoarder.” In Dave Nelson’s case, however, his pack rat tendencies are for a good cause—and will soon […]

It was the yellow color of the solution, pulled from cauliflower, that set Frederick Crane’s hallmark achievement into its final motion. Crane was a researcher […]

Two CALS faculty members are among four from the UW-Madison that were recently elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). […]

She woke up in her hospital room feeling nothing short of desperation. Katie Brenner remembered giving birth to a tiny daughter hours earlier but the […]

For people who know about RNA mostly from its place in the central dogma of biology — DNA ➙ RNA ➙ Protein — this story […]

Aaron Hoskins, a CALS assistant professor of biochemistry, was one of two UW-Madison researchers selected to receive a $200,000 grant through the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s […]