Category: Around CALS
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Posted on November 6, 2023
Representative science
Judith Simcox and her colleagues look to diversify the pool of researchers — and the questions they’re asking — to get answers that address health care disparities.
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Posted on October 30, 2023
One civet coffee, please — hold the poop
A partnership between CALS bacteriologists and a professor in Thailand yields a more animal-friendly delicacy drink.
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Posted on October 23, 2023
Viral copy machine revealed: Researchers use cryo-EM to render 3D blueprint of complex genome replication apparatus
RNA viruses, such as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, jump into a life-and-death race the moment they infect a cell. These viruses have only minutes […]
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Posted on October 16, 2023
Remnant of cell division could be responsible for spreading cancer
Once thought to be the trash can of the cell, a little bubble of cellular stuff called the midbody remnant is actually packing working genetic […]
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Posted on October 9, 2023
Two photos from CALS community among 2023 Cool Science Image winners
Winners in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s 13th annual Cool Science Image Contest include the first-ever look at how a fish organizes its immune cells, faraway […]
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Posted on October 2, 2023
Ag Hall hosts Wisconsin Regional Art Program exhibition
A new selection of art from the Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) is now on display in Ag Hall’s main foyer. After several years without […]
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Posted on September 25, 2023
New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets
Life on a faraway planet — if it’s out there — might not look anything like life on Earth. But there are only so many […]
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Posted on September 18, 2023
Meet the CALS Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team
The college’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has undergone significant growth since it was founded in Jan. 2022. The ODEI team – which now […]
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Posted on September 11, 2023
Photos: Fall 2023 back to campus activities at CALS
CALS welcomed students to campus over the last couple of weeks with orientation and other activities for new and returning students. The CALS Fall Welcome […]
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Posted on September 4, 2023
Pollutants are important to biodiversity’s role in spread of wildlife diseases
Conventional wisdom among ecologists holds that the more species there are inhabiting an ecosystem, the less vulnerable any one species will be to a threat […]