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Clinical trials can be vexing, just ask anyone associated with Osiris Therapeutics, a leading stem cell therapeutic company. The company recently announced that their mid-stage, Phase II trials to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with adult stem cells (called Prochymal) did a great job...

New Brunswick has found a model for promoting entrepreneurship in a U.S. state whose economy has traditionally relied on farming, mining and forestry. Wisconsin's love affair with startups and investors - which has transcended the business community and made its way to the state legislature...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to Madison based life science tools company GWC Technologies. The grant will accelerate development of the company's technology for tests that analyze proteins, “Carbon-on-Metal” (CoM) technology for protein array...

Developers at the Medical College of Wisconsin Proteomics Center recently announced the release of the Virtual Proteomics Data Analysis Cluster, a proteomics data analysis tool that runs on Amazon's EC2 and S3 services. Users simply log into their EC2 accounts to start up their own...

Entrepreneurs never really retire. They move on to their next project. Just ask Linda Remeschatis, 60, a former prosecutor in Madison, Wis., who turned her passion for local food and art into a second career. In 1998, at age 50, Remeschatis left the public sector...

At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I asked all of the vendors, "SaaS or on-premise?" The assumption, because this conference was all about modern 2.0 stuff, was that everyone would say, "SaaS, of course." Wrong. At least 50% of the vendors were deploying primarily on premise. Even...

Clinical trials can be vexing, just ask anyone associated with Osiris Therapeutics, a leading stem cell therapeutic company. The company recently announced that their mid-stage, Phase II trials to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with adult stem cells (called Prochymal) did a great job...

WASHINGTON – Lack of financing has caused mental health and human services to lag far behind general healthcare in access to health information technology, according to a national survey of more than 400 organizations. The survey revealed that mental health/addictions services spend only half as...