Fungal infections can result in serious illnesses, many of them deadly, in immunocompromised people. However, current antifungal medications can be toxic to humans. A […]

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  In fall 2022, Elliott Weix BSx’27 started his senior year of high school with a new career goal: scientist. Weix had spent his summer […]

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  In Virus Research Recast, (Grow, spring 2022), Catherine Steffel described how, in the wake of a global pandemic, CALS scientists had pivoted their research […]

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  Every part of your life, from your birth to the places you’ve lived to the snack you just devoured, shapes the community of microbes […]

  Last year, the University of Wisconsin–Madison turned 175. The university has been celebrating this impressive milestone by hosting campus and statewide festivities and by […]

  Judith Simcox can trace the course of her research career all the way back to high school. Her class was given an assignment to […]

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  During a 2015 trip to Egypt, Tom Patterson suffered a gallstone attack and soon fell terribly ill. But that’s not what nearly killed him. […]