Tag: Genetics
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Posted on April 4, 2016
Recent evolutionary change allows a fruit fly to dine on a toxic fruit
A fruit called the noni — now hyped for a vast array of unproven health benefits — is distinctly unhealthy for the fruit fly, which […]
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Posted on March 21, 2016
A Jolt to the System
As a linebacker for the UW–Madison Badgers, Chris Borland made a name for himself as a hard-hitting tackler. His senior year, he was selected as […]
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Posted on March 5, 2016
Ahna Skop honored with UW Distinguished Teaching Award
CALS geneticist Ahna Skop is among 12 UW-Madison faculty members selected to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize […]
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Posted on February 1, 2016
Lewis Thomas Prize to be awarded to CALS faculty member Sean Carroll
University of Wisconsin-Madison evolutionary biologist, educator and author Sean B. Carroll will be presented with The Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, it was announced […]
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Posted on January 20, 2016
Study illuminates war between the sexes: fruit fly edition
Drosophila erecta is an African fruit fly with a big problem: The male sexual organ is so rough that sex acts, almost literally, as a […]
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Posted on December 9, 2015
New journal to publish research by UW–Madison undergraduates
Each year, thousands of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates get their first exposure to work in a research laboratory, some contributing to studies that may eventually […]
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Posted on December 8, 2015
New way to make yeast hybrids may inspire new brews, biofuels
About 500 years ago, the accidental natural hybridization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast responsible for things like ale, wine and bread, and a distant yeast cousin […]
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Posted on November 18, 2015
New tool in the genetic toolbox – Extended Play Audio
/RSS FeedNew tool in the genetic toolbox Jill Wildonger, Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences wildonger@wisc.edu (608) 890-4619 Kate O’Connor-Giles, […]
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Posted on November 13, 2015
CRISPR New tool in the genetic toolbox – Audio
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New tool in the genetic toolbox Jill Wildonger, Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences wildonger@wisc.edu (608) 890-4619 Kate O’Connor-Giles, […]
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Posted on August 14, 2015
More details on origin of world’s favorite beer-making microbe
The crucial genetic mashup that spawned the yeast that brews the vast majority of beer occurred at least twice — and both times without human […]
