Just a year after breaking ground, the Fitchburg Technology Campus is becoming a cluster for nanotechnology with two of the area’s biggest companies....
A "sister park" agreement has been announced between the UW-Madison University Research Park and the Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Center in Frankfurt, one of Europe's leading business hubs....
After Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed a bill that would have banned cloning of human embryonic stem cells for research purposes, the legislative director of Wisconsin’s Right to Life movement made a remark that seemed straight out of a science fiction movie. ...
Gov. Jim Doyle announced Thursday his veto of AB 499, which would have outlawed all forms of human cloning in Wisconsin....
Platypus Technologies, a developer of a new platform technology using liquid crystals with applications in diagnostics, drug discovery and environmental monitoring, raised $1.2 million in its most recent round of investment. It was the firm’s third round. ...
Third Wave Technologies Inc. has reported financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2005....
James Dumesic and Randy Cortright partnered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to invent a novel new, nonpolluting method for producing fuel from everyday wastes like corn, wheat straw and sawdust. Now the two will be honored for their work. ...
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...
The federal Food and Drug Association today approved GE Healthcare's Lunar iDXA, a new bone mineral density system designed to help doctors detect, diagnose and monitor treatment of osteoporosis, a disease characterized by low bone mass and increased risk of fracture, more accurately and earlier...