Although cells may seem endlessly complicated, at the end of the day they are machines that aren’t so different from those in daily life — like a Roomba used to vacuum a house. They are …
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Hoskins Earns Grant to Study Splicing Inhibitors, Connection to Cancer
With a grant from the Edward P. Evans Foundation, biochemistry associate professor Aaron Hoskins is searching for new treatments for myelodysplastic syndromes — a type of blood cancer — by being able to screen for RNA splicing …
Major Microscopy Project Coming to Life with New Talent, Technology Additions
The University of Wisconsin-Madison effort to launch a shared cryo-electron microscopy facility for the bioscience community is gathering momentum, with two new faculty hires and key technology investments this summer. Tim Grant, a research specialist …
New Biochemistry Optical Core Manager Joins Department as Campus Resource
Peter Favreau joined the Department of Biochemistry in July as the new manager of the Biochemistry Optical Core (BOC). The research core is housed in Biochemistry but serves as a resource for all campus researchers — including …
Kirchdoerfer Joins IPiB, Campus Virology Community to Utilize Cryo-EM Technologies
When Robert Kirchdoerfer was offered a faculty position in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry, it was a bit of a homecoming. The 2006 undergraduate alumnus and Oregon, Wisc. native will be arriving back …
Biochemistry Ph.D. Alumnus Combines Interest in Science, Humanities in Career as Patent Agent
Dan Blasiole’s career is a synthesis of his two intellectual passions: the sciences and the humanities. After honing his science knowledge with a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the lab of professor Alan Attie, he found …
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 …
Relieving Two Headaches with One Process
With a new method to synthesize a popular pain-relieving medication from plants rather than fossil fuels, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have found a way to relieve two headaches at once. A …
A Trojan Horse? Immune Cells Ferry Deadly Fungus from Mouse Lung into the Blood
A report today (June 27) in PLOS Pathogens shows how inhaled fungal spores exit the lung and trigger a fatal infection in mice. The study solves a mystery of mycology: Why are spores of a …
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 …