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Microbes compete for nutrients, affect metabolism, development in mice
“Gut bacteria get to use a lot of our food before we do,” says Federico Rey, a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Then we get their leftovers — or their…
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Tim Donohue named interim director of the Wisconsin Energy Institute
Tim Donohue, director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and UW Foundation Chairman Fetzer-Bascom Professor in bacteriology, will serve as the new interim director of the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI).…
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Mike Sussman & Melanie Ivancic: Blood work
Madison, Wisconsin, may have become ground zero in the war against one of the deadliest cancers on the planet. Local biotech company Exact Sciences made headlines in 2014 when it received FDA…
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Yeast knockouts peel back secrets of cell protein function
Proteins are the hammers and tongs of life, with fundamental roles in most of what happens in biology. But biologists still don’t know what thousands of proteins do, and how their presence…
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Four engineers receive UW–Madison Romnes fellowships in 2016
Four engineers of twelve total promising young members of the UW–Madison faculty have been honored with Romnes Faculty Fellowships. Two of these faculty members, Bill Murphy and Kristyn Masters, are trainers in the Biotechnology…