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Middleton, Wis. -- Bone Care International, Inc. announced Tuesday Herbert Conrad as chairman of the board of directors, replacing founder Richard Mazess. Mazess will remain on the board of directors. ...

MADISON - Human neural stem cells, exposed in a lab dish to the steroid DHEA, exhibit a remarkable uptick in growth rates, suggesting that the hormone may play a role in helping the brain produce new cells, according to a new study published this week...

MADISON-Mutations that allow AIDS viruses to escape detection by the immune system may also hinder the viruses' ability to grow after transmission to new hosts, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced this week in the journal Nature Medicine....

Scottsdale, Ariz. -- The DEMO 2004 Conference kicked off today with a high level of energy and enthusiasm among the 600 attendees who traveled to Scottsdale for this event which is serving as a launching pad for 67 of today’s best new consumer and enterprise...

Madison, Wis. -- Kenneth Poole, an economic and community development specialist, presented a hopeful outlook for Wisconsin manufacturing Friday at the 2004 Governor’s Conference on Economic Development. Abstaining from morbid statistics and pessimistic views, Poole emphasized ways to keep and grow businesses in Wisconsin. ...

Madison, Wis. – Alfalight, Inc., a manufacturer of diode lasers, announced today the appointment of Mohandas Warrior as its president and chief executive officer. Warrior brings Fortune-50 semiconductor manufacturing and operational experience as well as entrepreneurial leadership to the Madison-based company. ...

MADISON – South Korea is a nation deeply imbued with Confucian values, such as the belief that human bodies are inherited from ancestors and should never be tampered with. So there was understandable culture clash in Seoul last week when South Korean researchers announced they...

Madison, Wis. -- A collapsible ice-fishing net, a polymer sorting machine and a BMX-to-ski bike conversion kit took top honors out of a field of 22 inventions University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates presented at Innovation Days, Feb. 12 and 13....

Madison, Wis. – When Gov. Jim Doyle took office last year he faced the largest budget deficit in the history of Wisconsin – a gap of nearly 3.2 billion dollars and a challenge that seemed insurmountable for a first-term governor....

The computer has replaced the kettle of molten steel as the representative symbol of a growing economy. The assembly line has given way to the cubicle farm. Instead of coke and iron ore, information is now our critical raw material. We transform data and information...