UW-Madison News: Research

Researchers mapped the genetic blueprints, appetites, and environments of more than 1,000 species of yeasts, building a family tree that illuminates how these single-celled fungi evolved over the...

https://news.wisc.edu/these-jacks-of-all-trades-are-masters-too-yeast-study-helps-answer-age-old-biology-question/

The work centers around altering the interaction between two proteins that are believed to be involved in setting the stage for diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and amyotrophic lateral scle...

https://news.wisc.edu/nanomaterial-that-mimics-proteins-could-be-basis-for-new-neurodegenerative-disease-treatments/

Two of UW–Madison’s key missions meet at the Undergraduate Symposium: leading-edge knowledge discovery and quality undergraduate education.

https://news.wisc.edu/undergrads-embrace-opportunity-to-showcase-research-at-symposium/

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison decodes the evolutionary pathway of regulatory proteins, the molecules that help control gene expression.

https://news.wisc.edu/researchers-reveal-evolutionary-path-of-important-proteins/

Size doesn’t matter when it comes to genome sequencing in the animal kingdom, as a team of researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research recently illustrated when assembling the sequences...

https://news.wisc.edu/all-creatures-great-and-small-sequencing-the-blue-whale-and-etruscan-shrew-genomes/

Researchers have been trying to understand why and how certain lymphoma treatments often stop being effective. Lixin Rui and his team believe they've found the reason — and a potential alternat...

https://news.wisc.edu/some-lymphomas-become-resistant-to-treatment-gene-discovery-may-offer-path-to-overcome-it/

While some people may first associate daddy longlegs with well, their legs, researchers from the Department of Integrative Biology have been especially focused on the arachnids’ eyes and what t...

https://news.wisc.edu/the-eyes-are-a-gateway-to-evolution-of-daddy-longlegs-at-least/

Taking advantage of the unique biochemical properties of protein fragments, their tool uses less expensive, more efficient, off-the-shelf chemical compounds to help identify sites where proteins ...

https://news.wisc.edu/new-toolkit-helps-scientists-study-natural-cell-death/

Biochemists at UW–Madison have developed a tool to control how certain proteins move in mammalian cells, a discovery that has multiple potential uses for treating or studying diseases by engine...

https://news.wisc.edu/programming-cells-to-organize-their-molecules-may-open-the-door-to-new-treatments/

It’s an achievement with important implications for scientists studying the brain and working on treatments for a broad range of neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Alzheimer...

https://news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-researchers-first-to-3d-print-functional-human-brain-tissue/