MADISON - ProCertus BioPharm, Inc., an oncology-based pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics to protect cancer patients from the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, announced that its collaborators at the University of Wisconsin - Madison have begun enrolling patients in a clinical trial designed to determine...
In tough times, businesses have to cut everything but their core operations. Governor Jim Doyle demonstrates in his new budget that business development remains a core priority. Here at the Department of Commerce, we’ll be implementing the most powerful new economic development tools in the...
Why did you click on this article? I bet the headline had something to do with it. So many press releases display boring headlines ("Our Company Is Going To Attend An Obscure Sales Conference Somewhere") and even more lifeless copy in the body of the...
Hundreds of embryonic stem cell lines, whose use in the United States had effectively been curtailed by the Bush administration, can be used to study disorders and develop cures if researchers can show the cells were derived using ethical procedures, according to new rules issued...
A committee of UW-Madison officials recently selected the five research themes and faculty leaders that will guide UW-Madison’s new research facility, the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. The institute, which is currently under construction on University Avenue, will focus on research intended to improve human health. The...
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown that public information readily gleaned from governmental sources, commercial data bases, or online social networks can be used to routinely predict most — and sometimes all — of an individual's nine-digit Social Security number. Project lead Alessandro Acquisti, associate professor...
Alnylam leads a short list of some of the fastest-growing biotech stocks where analyst estimate revisions continue to rise. BioHealth Investor began by analyzing 171 stocks in the biotech sector based on revenue growth over the trailing four quarters, identifying 30 stocks in the sector with...
We expect government to protect certain virtues as it regulates business: safe products and workplaces, a clean environment, and fair competition. Giving "innovation" similar protection -- with its own agency, like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- is a notion I dismissed out of hand...
A senior senator yesterday demanded a federal probe of alleged anti-competitive practices in the wireless industry, escalating recent congressional concern that too much power is concentrating in the hands of a few carriers. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, sent...
For candidates seeking employment at a job fair, an initial interview with a company may last only five minutes. While a job seeker has to be qualified in order to get the job, there will always be several other people who are equally qualified as...