Tomas Prolla is senior author of a new paper that looks at the genetic roots of this type of hearing loss, which is not due to noise exposure.

This Saturday, as hunters seek white-tailed deer in Wisconsin”s forested areas, a research team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Susan Paskewitz will be conducting […]

Susan Paskewitz aims to find out how many of the mosquitoes that plague us spring through fall are of the genus that carryies the West Nile Virus

A new UW-Madison finding that pregnant women who take some types of vitamin supplements or eat fortified foods may be passing excess vitamin A to their developing fetuses could guide efforts to develop future formulations of vitamins.

Susan Smith, a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a prestigious MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health, which provides research funding for up to 10 years. Smith is an expert on fetal alcohol exposure, the leading known cause of mental retardation in the world.

Prions, the rogue proteins that cause chronic wasting disease and similar maladies, may be more mobile in soil that is more alkaline, suggests a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.

For the growing number of people with diminished immune systems – cancer patients, transplant recipients, those with HIV/AIDS – infection by a ubiquitous mold known as Aspergillus fumigatus can be a death sentence. Now, however, scientists may have found a master switch, an uber gene, that seems to control the mold’s ability to make poison.

Bacteria are a cunning foe; at a worrisome rate, they are developing resistance to the current arsenal of antibiotic drugs. Without new drugs, society may be approaching a world reminiscent of the pre-antibiotic era, when coming down with a bacterial infection was often a matter of life or death.

Researchers calculate that a $.67 up-size can generate more than $7 in hidden costs over the next year

Ever since penicillin, a byproduct of a fungal mold, was discovered in 1929, scientists have scrutinized fungi for other breakthrough drugs. As reported today in The Journal of Chemistry and Biology, a team led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher has developed a new method that may speed the ongoing quest for medically useful compounds in fungi.