Three University of Wisconsin–Madison Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) faculty trainers have been honored with Vilas professorships. The professorships, totaling 40 this year, honor extraordinary members of the UW–Madison faculty with awards supported by the estate …
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Wild Wisconsin yeast find their way into bread, beer, and class
Your next bite of local bread or gulp of Madison beer might just have a little piece of Sheboygan in it. Sheboygan yeast, anyway. That yeast will have traveled on collection swabs, been scrutinized in …
A hidden world of communication, chemical warfare, beneath the soil
The soil supporting a field of crops teems with life. Untold numbers of bacteria and fungi strive for space and food. Most are harmless. Many are vital to creating healthy soil. But farmers worry about …
Metastasis enablers: Findings could unlock new ovarian cancer treatments
In order to spread their destruction, ovarian cancer cells must break free from their tumor home, travel through the fluid in the peritoneal cavity and attach to the outside of the abdominal organs—surfaces that are, …
UW–Madison announces UW2020 funded projects, with BTP mentors on several
Numerous University of Wisconsin–Madison Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) faculty trainers are on recently awarded UW2020 Round 4 projects. The goal of UW2020 is to stimulate and support cutting edge, highly innovative, and groundbreaking research at …
BTP trainees make strong showing in 2018 NSF fellowships
Four Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) trainees have received Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Edna Chiang from the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program under advisor Garret Suen Benjamin Gastfriend from Chemical and Biological …
BTP mentors receive prestigious university awards
Several University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members who serve as trainers for the Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) have earned prestigious university awards. Bacteriology professor Richard Gourse received the Hilldale Award in Biological Sciences, one of just …
Bringing cheap and accurate tuberculosis tests to Africa
Since the 1970s, millions of women have appreciated the ease of a urine-based home pregnancy test to find out if their family is about to grow. A diagnostic test that’s just as accurate and easy …
New hope for stopping an understudied heart disease in its tracks
The diminutive size of our aortic valve — just shy of a quarter — belies its essential role in pushing oxygen-rich blood from the heart into the aorta, our body’s largest vessel, and from there …
All-in-one repair kit makes CRISPR gene editing more precise
For the past five years, CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized the field of gene editing due to its ease and low cost. But although this technology reliably finds and cuts the targeted stretch of DNA sequence, fixing that …