Author: WTN News

Merge eMed, a Merge Healthcare company and a medical imaging software and services company, today announced the release of Cedara I-ReadMammo digital mammography workstation software. This multi modality, vendor-neutral mammography workstation software product is designed to help organizations streamline breast imaging workflow and reduce costs...

A free online service, DirectorConnector, that connects businesses and non-profit organizations with potential board members is up to 500 registered users, according to the two firms that started it earlier this year....

Pierce Biotechnology, a unit of Fisher Biosciences, has contracted with GenTel BioSurfaces of Madison, Wis., to distribute GenTel's trademarked PATH brand thin-film nitrocellulose slides and has licensed the use of GenTel technology in developing new protein arrays for life-science research and drug discovery. GenTel slides...

Four Wisconsin state agencies received the Center for Digital Government's 2005 Digital Government Achievement Award in recognition of their innovative use of Web sites and computer applications to enhance government operations and interactions. ...

Neurognostics, Inc., a Wisconsin company specializing in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) products and services, announced today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Special 510(k) approval for market clearance of its trademarked MindState fDAD. ...

Bruker AXS Inc. announced an agreement to acquire the Princeton Gamma-Tech X-ray microanalysis business, with annual revenues of $5-6 million, from Princeton Gamma-Tech Instruments, Inc. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, and the acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of...

Stratatech Corporation, a UW spin-off company, has received a $168,000 Phase I SBIR Grant from the National Institute on Aging, for the development of cell-based gene therapy products for the treatment of chronic skin wounds such as diabetic, venous stasis and pressure ulcers, which are...

Kurt Squire, an assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Education, hopes to bring a new dimension to education and learning with “augmented reality” games, which combine aspects of physical activity, traditional reading and math problems, and video-game simulations....

Growing at an annual clip of 16 percent the past two years, Wisconsin's bioscience sector is making inroads into a state's historically known for beer, brats, and milk, says Gale Davy, author of a report, "Bioscience Wisconsin," released today at the State Capitol in Madison....

“Not only is there not a lot of money out there for women, but not a lot of early stage money,” said Lauren Flanagan, founder and CEO of SCIO Corp., a Michigan financial consulting firm. Flanagan and others are hoping to turn that around. ...