Author: WTN News

Madison, Wis. -- Promega Corporation and EraGen Biosciences, two Madison-based life science companies, signed a licensing agreement Wednesday allowing Promega to develop products using EraGen’s research assays. The partnership also grants Promega global distribution rights for research assays. ...

MADISON – Wisconsin’s law enforcement agencies are slated to begin training tomorrow on a new technology to identify, track and identify criminals. The training, sponsored by the Oshkosh Police Department, is on the IQ Biometrix FACES system. The system allows photo-like images of suspects to...

In professional-degree programs across campus, professors work to impart the theory and the practice of a given profession to their students. And for many professions, skill with information technology is key to successful practice. Nowhere is this truer than in the School of Library and...

CHICAGO – Though spring is in the air and we are emerging into the second week of March, it’s still difficult to look in the crystal ball and say whether this will be a good or bad year for biotechnology. In the first two months...

Few topics of this newsletter hit a nerve as sharply as social networking has. In fact, I get more mail when I write on this topic than I seem to receive on all other topics combined. (Something I suppose I should keep in mind when...

Madison, Wis. -- Bruker AXS Inc., the Madison-based division of Bruker BioSciences Corporation, launched a bevy of products at the PITTCON 2004 in Chicago Thursday. Highlighted products include new technology to quickly produce protein crystal structures, a new solution for the S2 RANGER energy dispersive...

Madison, Wis. – SecurePipe, Inc., a Madison-based provider of managed Internet network security services, announced Thursday it raised $3.2 million in funding from First Analysis, Argentum Group and Prism Opportunity Fund. The financing will be used to expand the company’s sales and marketing, business development,...

Perhaps the gap between Wisconsin’s biotechnology sector and other well-established biotech regions is closing. A March 1 article in Genetic Engineering News featuring Wisconsin’s biotech sector as “America’s Third Coast,” gives credit where it’s due, say technology leaders....

The biotechnology community in Wisconsin calls itself “America’s Third Coast,” referring to its proximity to Lakes Superior and Michigan. Approximately 150 companies belong to the Wisconsin Biotechnology Association (WBA), based in Madison, which is also home to the Big 10 campus of the University of...