Tag: Genetics
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Posted on November 4, 2016
A vision for genes: One-of-a-kind geneticist snags Ph.D.
When you ask questions about Drew Hasley, the answers often revolve, paradoxically enough, around questions. He was selected for his first biology research job at […]
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Posted on October 26, 2016
Alumnus’s startup seeks more precise screening for prostate cancer
Last fall, while discussing inventions awaiting commercialization at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, stumbled across one with an uncanny match to his resume. Zutz was […]
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Posted on October 5, 2016
Enormous rodents on Gough Island may hold key to solving genetic mystery
Two thousand miles east of the coast of Argentina, Gough Island rises out of the Atlantic Ocean in an awesome display of ancient volcanic activity. […]
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Posted on September 16, 2016
How rattlesnakes got, and lost, their venom
Millions of years ago, as the snake family tree grew new branches, the ancestor of modern rattlesnakes was endowed with a genetic arsenal of toxic […]
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Posted on August 18, 2016
Fruit flies help explain differences between males and females
Vive la difference! Trust the French to compose poetry from banality. And yet the biological explanation for the many physical differences between males and females […]
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Teachers conduct bioenergy research at UW-Madison during summer vacation
Just days after shepherding their science students out of the classroom and into the less structured days of summer, Cherrie Anne Maner and Lisa Sorlie […]
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Posted on July 15, 2016
Mara McDonald, ‘quintessential boundary crosser,’ dies at 68
Mara McDonald was never without a smile and a kind word. And though the longtime assistant administrator in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Laboratory of Genetics […]
- Posted on July 8, 2016
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Posted on July 7, 2016
Lessons of lager: Yeast origin becomes a complex tale
Without question, the domesticated hybrid yeast that gives us lager beer is an organism worth many billions of dollars. Beer is the world’s most commonly […]
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Posted on May 12, 2016
UW journal of undergraduate research publishes first issue
Seven researchers who happen to be undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison now share a point on their curricula vitae with their professors and […]