As food travels from farms to food processors to grocers and finally to your table, food safety is a constant concern. From farm fields to your kitchen, food is vulnerable to contamination by microscopic organisms that cause illness.

Women who effectively use health information on the Internet appear to make ongoing use of varied resources there, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers. The scientists’ findings are based on their evaluation of an experimental Internet site they created for women with breast cancer.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have begun a major effort to comprehend a poorly understood mechanism that keeps cells working smoothly. They are studying the main pathway that cells use to remove proteins they no longer need or want.

For years, scientists have used mouse embryonic stem cells as a window to the mysteries of early development. In more recent times, the vast biomedical potential of human stem cells has sparked the public imagination and held out hope for millions of people with chronic cell-based diseases.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Babcock dairy plant will no longer certify that its fluid milk supplies come from herds that avoid use of supplemental bovine somatotropin (BST).

Katrina Forest has been selected as one of five W.M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research for 2001. Forest, an assistant professor of bacteriology at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, will receive $1 million over a five-year period to study proteins involved in the common early steps of bacterial infection in humans.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are looking for rural Wisconsin women newly diagnosed with breast cancer for a study. The study will evaluate how successfully computers and the internet can be used to help women face this life-threatening disease.

Milk is more than a good source of protein, calcium, and vitamin D. It can be a good source of valuable medical foods, says a University of Wisconsin-Madison food scientist.

A short stroll along Linden Drive and down Henry Mall takes visitors past the sites of some of the biggest scientific achievements of the past century. Those locations are no longer anonymous, thanks to a series of 19 plaques that highlights accomplishments at the UW-Madison”s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Research on baby pigs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may soon help doctors improve the way they care for premature infants.