University of Wisconsin–Madison botanist hopes facility will someday soon be a hub for biologists, engineers, and agronomists to collaborate on improving crops—by measuring them

A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of bacteriology has shown the first proof that a certain group of amoeba called dictyostelids can penetrate biofilms and eat the bacteria within

Researchers at the UW–Madison Wisconsin Institute for Discovery are conducting experiments to test the idea that lifelike chemical reactions might develop readily under the right condition

The scaffolds can then be primed and seeded with human stem cells to optimize their growth in the lab dish and, ultimately, create novel biomedical implants

Study may be the first to provide quantifiable evidence that eliminating the overabundance of phosphorus will be critical for improving the quality of Wisconsin's lakes and rivers

“For many years, listeria has been associated with adverse outcomes in pregnancy, but particularly at the end of pregnancy,” researcher says 

University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Dominique Brossard discusses  the fake news phenomenon in the context of science and online social networks like Facebook and Twitter

The four-year research project published Feb. 2 in Science offers a direct visual proof of “synaptic homeostasis hypothesis” 

Researchers find that, for primates, age, diet, and sex must all be factored in to realize the full benefits of lower caloric intake

Recent research indicates that hurricanes approaching the U.S. are more likely to intensify during less active Atlantic periods

Restoring erectile function to men who have lost it due to cancer or other injury is no locker-room joke

The technology is an influenza B vaccine virus “backbone” that would allow producers to grow vaccine viruses at high yield in mammalian cell culture rather than in eggs

“We are taking the problem and trying to turn it into a solution,” scientist says

The upshot of the study is another indictment of the so-called Western diet 

Researchers describe how an epigenetic protein complex acts as a link between the environment and the genome to promoting the onset of aging in plants