There are many processes that take place in cells that are essential for life. Two of these, transcription and translation, allow the genetic information stored […]

It’s still ice cream, but it’s so much more. UW Athletics has teamed up with the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant to add and subtract ingredients to […]

Above: Heather White (left), assistant professor of dairy science at UW–Madison, talks with dairy farm owner and UW alumnus Mitch Breunig (right) at his farm in […]

Above photo: U.S. Navy Bacteria, like humans and animals, must eat. Sometimes, they consume a pollutant in the environment that humans want to get rid […]

Swarms of midges rise out of a lake in northern Iceland in such enormous numbers every spring and summer that they can impair breathing and […]

For decades, phosphorous has accumulated in Wisconsin soils. Though farmers have taken steps to reduce the quantity of the agricultural nutrient applied to and running […]

The community of microorganisms that resides in the gut, known as the microbiome, has been shown to work in tandem with the genes of a […]

For decades, American energy companies have tried to persuade customers to use less energy. Using giveaways and various other financial incentives, utilities have promoted new […]

When the city girl decides to study lactation, she must first learn to milk a cow. Laura Hernandez, an assistant professor of dairy science at CALS, […]

The Department of Biological Systems Engineering may sound like an unusual host for a visiting artist, but Peter Krsko, the university’s Spring 2017 Interdisciplinary Artist […]