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A molecular biologist and professor emeritus of genetics at UW-Madison, who studied the structure that forms proteins inside cells here between 1963 and 1984, passed away on Nov. 19 at age 84 in California. Read …

Biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, whose UW work earned the Nobel Prize, died November 9th. Read More

The work of Biochemistry professor Aaron Hoskins has been highlighted for 2011 by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Read More

Preserving a treasure. The 1940s murals by the famous painter John Steuart Curry were carefully preserved while the building around them was gutted and rebuilt. Read More

The UW-Madison researchers have spent the past decade conducting genetic analyses of obese diabetes-resistant and diabetes-susceptible mouse strains, and recently pinpointed a single amino acid difference. PLOS Article here Read More

Congratulations Mike Sussman! Read More

The NIH Director's New Innovator Award addresses two important goals: stimulating highly innovative research and supporting promising new investigators. Dr. Weibel's project title: Revisiting The Bacterial Cell Wall As A Target For New Antibiotics Congratulations …

Glenn Awards were initiated in 2007, to provide unsolicited funds to researchers investigating the biology of aging. The grants are to assist scientists where funding shortages threaten to impede scientific progress. Award recipients are selected …

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has selected Sonia Trevino-Dopatka from University of Wisconsin as a 2011 award recipient of the ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship is aimed at highly competitive students who wish …

Biochemistry undergraduate student Jeffrey Vinokur, the Dancing Scientist, returns from tour (37 shows in 30 days). Plans 2012 east and west coast tours. Read More