By David Tenenbaum MA’86

Can’t we all just get along? Many organisms already do, according to a new body of research at UW-Madison. Biologists are exploring the ways that living things cooperate to accomplish life’s most basic tasks. How is this new science of symbiosis changing the way we understand our own existence?

Check out the news at the UW’s microbial symbiosis group.

Read more about the symbiont E. coli.

See a list of common symbiotic relationships.