Month: July 2026

Six projects across four UW schools and colleges have received annual State Economic Engagement and Development funding, totaling $550,000. The funded projects largely address issues that affect Wisconsin and its residents, including reducing fertilizer use, improving …

CMB Student Daniel Sam, Class of 2020, Weaver Lab, published the paper “Mad1 facilitates α5 integrin trafficking from the Golgi to promote abscission during cytokinesis” in Nature Communications.  Congratulations, Daniel!

For children born with a rare form of inherited blindness called Leber congenital amaurosis type 16 (LCA16), the genetic culprit can be a single miswritten instruction in their DNA — a so-called “nonsense mutation” that …