Hezouwe Walada grew up in the small village of Koumea, which is located near the city of Kara, in Togo, West Africa. This spring he […]

During a 2015 trip to Egypt, Tom Patterson suffered a gallstone attack and soon fell terribly ill. But that’s not what nearly killed him. Patterson […]

Genes. They’re what control the way living things look and even function, what eye color they may have and even what diseases they may live […]

Michael Bartlett Smith, who grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be graduating this December 2022 with bachelor’s degrees in entomology and biochemistry. In this Q&A, […]

With support from the National Institutes of Health 2022 High Risk, High Reward New Innovator Awards, University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemistry professors Ci Ji Lim and Amy […]

“What are you looking for in a graduate school?” That was the question posed to a panel of visiting undergraduates one April afternoon in UW’s […]

Michael Sussman, professor of biochemistry, is the first recipient of the Salm-Bray Distinguished Chair at the UW–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. This chair […]

It was a quiet evening in 2012, and Robert Kirchdoerfer BS’06 was missing yet another dramatic sunset over the Pacific Ocean. But it didn’t bother him much. […]

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have described the way an enzyme and proteins interact to maintain the protective caps, called telomeres, at the end […]

Ed Himelblau PhD’00 leads a double life — and it’s hilarious. As a biology professor at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, students find […]