A new manager joins the Biochemistry Optical Core. The BOC is a resource for all campus researchers using microscopy.
Research
Screen using blood-based fingerprints for colon cancer shows promise
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have identified blood-based fingerprints – human protein markers – associated with the pre-cancerous forms of colon cancer that are most likely to develop into disease. They say their findings are a promising start to what could ultimately lead to a new blood test for the cancer.
Relieving two headaches with one process
With a new method to synthesize a popular pain-relieving medication from plants rather than fossil fuels, biochemistry and energy researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have found a way to relieve two headaches at once.
2019 Frontiers in Metabolism meeting explores advances in metabolic research
The Morgridge Institute for Research is convening international leaders in metabolic research at the third Frontiers in Metabolism meeting, to be held this fall.
Venturelli receives Gates Grand Challenges Grant for exploratory work on microbiome and malnutrition
With a Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists Ophelia Venturelli and Brian Pfleger are working to further research on how to use human-associated intestinal microbes to combat malnutrition in developing countries.
UW changes lives: Campus-born fertility company seeks to improve women’s health care, Wisconsin economy
What started as a side project in a laboratory in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry is now a successful Wisconsin startup that’s closer than ever to giving women a way to easily track their hormone levels and help overcome difficulties conceiving a child.
Venturelli, WID’s Handelsman earn Army Research Office grant to study microbial communication
Two researchers have been awarded more than $1 million as part of the multidisciplinary university research initiative from the United States Army Research Office to better understand microbial communities.
Powerful in vivo studies allow researchers to glimpse biological processes ‘within the living’
Researchers in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry perform in vivo biochemical studies. With the advent of gene editing technologies such as CRISPR, the in vivo studies are cracking open exciting new ways to understand what’s going on at the genetic and molecular levels in organisms.
Forgotten molecules: The fruits of an emeritus professor’s 40-year career are contributing to the modern search for new medications
In the complicated process of drug discovery, scientists screen large collections of molecules in search of a range of properties that indicate they could be used as antibiotic, antifungal, or anticancer agents, or even neurological drugs. When compared to the types of molecules synthesized for drug discovery today, the old-school way in which biochemistry emeritus professor Laurens Anderson’s molecules were made gives them some unique properties, so they are taking on new significance.
SCORE, SUPER-G students take the ‘plunge’ and experience research in Europe
Not every student will go skydiving while doing research abroad like biochemistry undergraduate Meng Lou. However, they can take a plunge by making the decision to travel to a country they’ve never been to and perform …