In a landmark study based on one of the most comprehensive genomic datasets ever assembled, a team led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison […]

Brenen Skalitzky will be graduating this spring with a bachelor’s degree in genetics and genomics, as well as three certificates: criminal justice, global health, and […]

Our world is vast and brimming with an array of creatures. It can be challenging to think about what goes on outside our own neighborhoods, […]

Speciation, the formation of new and distinct species over time, is an abstract concept that can be difficult for younger students to grasp. Multiple factors […]

A project on high-sugar diet spearheaded by scientist Rodrigo Dutra Nunes in the lab of Daniela Drummond-Barbosa opens the door for breakthrough advancements in fertility research.  In a recent study published […]

CALS students are doing amazing things, and we’re excited to feature some of them in our Q&A series! Meet Brenen Skalitzky, a third-year senior majoring […]

We often look to the smallest lifeforms for help solving the biggest problems: Microbes help make foods and beverages, cure diseases, treat waste and even […]

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison made an unexpected discovery while studying a strain of yeast closely related to the kind used to ferment beer […]

Back when the biggest fly enthusiasts of 19th century Sweden — Carl Fredrik Fallén, for one, and later Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt — were collecting insects […]

Once thought to be the trash can of the cell, a little bubble of cellular stuff called the midbody remnant is actually packing working genetic […]