Madison, Wis. — Wisconsin's Building Commission approved a $150 million plan to build the first phase of the planned Institutes for Discovery on a block of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, the governor's office said....
Madison, Wis. — Third Wave Technologies, Inc. has added two executives to its senior management team, including an attorney that helped litigate Third Wave's successful patent infringement suit against Stratagene Corp....
The state Building Commission will define what's within reason Wednesday when it considers a landmark plan to build the first phase of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, a research center that will accelerate the pace of medical breakthroughs, create jobs, and train scientists from an...
Wauwatosa, Wis. — ZyStor Therapeutics, Inc. will seek additional venture funding this year in advance of filing for an investigational new drug application, president and CEO Loren G. Peterson said....
When representatives from Japan, the second-largest biotech market in the world, came to Chicago for the international BIO convention, you might not think they would end up talking about Madison....
Madison, Wis. — Platypus Technologies said it has been granted a new patent on its technology for using liquid crystals to track the movement, proliferation and death of cells. ...
Madison, Wis. — A new diagnostic tool that might play an important role in rapidly detecting viruses that cause avian flu and other respiratory illnesses is close to passing a validation test being conducted at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics....
A stem cell scientist from Harvard University dropped by Wisconsin's pavilion at the BIO Chicago convention and noted, with a hint of admiration, that it was abuzz with activity....
Chicago — Deven McGlenn kept busy at the BIO Chicago industry show this week. Rather than walk the show floor to pick up a laser-pointer pen or kangaroo lapel pin, he met with more than three dozen people who could help his business grow ...
Chicago — The biotechnology industry has a job to do, former president Bill Clinton said at a luncheon attended by thousands at the BIO Chicago conference. His vision of a future without the solutions that biotechnology could bring was dark....