Assistant professor of biochemistry Vatsan Raman was recently named to a list of 44 young researchers featured in Biochemistry’s “Future of Biochemistry” special issue.
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Google honors UW–Madison biochemist and Nobel laureate Hars Gobind Khorana
On what would be his 96th birthday, Khorana was honored by the daily Google doodle for his Nobel Prize-winning work deciphering the genetic code.
Cracking the code of coenzyme Q biosynthesis
Coenzyme Q is a vital cog in the body’s energy-producing machinery, a kind of chemical gateway in the conversion of food into cellular fuel. But six decades removed from its discovery, scientists still can’t describe exactly how and when it is made.
Chimpanzee deaths in Uganda pinned on human cold virus
In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to predators to deforestation. That’s why scientists, investigating an outbreak of respiratory disease in a community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, were surprised and dismayed to discover that a human “common cold” virus known as rhinovirus C was killing healthy chimps.
Biochemistry, energy researcher named to 2017 “Highly Cited” list
John Ralph, biochemistry professor and researcher with the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI), has been named to Clarivate Analytics’ 2017 list of “Highly Cited Researchers.”
Designer molecule points to treatment for diseases caused by DNA repeats
Researchers have designed a molecule that targets short sequences of DNA that repeat many times, including those that cause the rare but fatal disease Friedreich’s ataxia.
Biochemistry undergraduate alumnus helps lead diagnostic laboratory
Only a little more than a decade out of his biochemistry undergraduate degree, Michael Rummel is an owner in and the chief operating officer of an independent laboratory based in Southern California named InSource Diagnostics. …
New Model Reveals Possibility of Pumping Antibiotics into Bacteria
Researchers in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry have discovered that a cellular pump known to move drugs like antibiotics out of E. coli bacteria has the potential to bring them in as well, opening new …
Project CRYSTAL Returns to the Holden Laboratory in Biochemistry
The successful middle school outreach program called Project CRYSTAL has returned to the Holden Lab in the Department of Biochemistry. Professor Hazel Holden and a group of motivated undergraduates are showing six adventurous eighth graders …
2017 Marks Centennial of Two Significant Department Discoveries
The year 1917 — 100 years ago — was a big year for the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, then called the Department of Agricultural Chemistry. Now in 2017 the department is …