MADISON — Despite a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs during the past 15 years, gene therapy has continued to attract many of the world’s brightest scientists. They are tantalized by the enormous potential that replacing missing genes or disabling defective ones offers for curing...
From intellectual property to the market: Tech Transfer in Wisconsin
Break biotechnology into its root words and you have …
Bio, from the Greek word for “life;” and
Technology, from the Greek words meaning “art” and “knowledge.”...
MADISON - A cellular structure discovered 125 years ago and dismissed by many biologists as "cellular garbage" has been found to play a key role in the process of cytokinesis, or cell division, one of the most ancient and important of all biological phenomena....
MADISON - The Wisconsin Technology Council has published the first-ever magazine about Wisconsin’s life sciences industry. The 24-page publication highlights the state’s research base, technology-transfer process, company creation, quality of life, key contacts and the “I-Q Corridor” that joins Chicago,...
MADISON - For children growing up poor, money isn't the only solution to overcoming the challenges of poverty. According to a new study, the genes and warm support received from parents also can buffer these children against many of the cognitive and behavioral problems for which...
Conferences intended to showcase Wis. startups, biotech Entrepreneurship, nanotechnology and biomedical engineering will be the subjects of three conferences June 1-4 in Madison and Milwaukee, giving substance to what Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has declared “Entrepreneurs and Research Week.”...
Middleton, Wis. -- Lucigen Corporation, which provides molecular cloning products to genetics researchers, has been awarded a patent on a new way to clone genes that may solve a persistent problem in genetics....
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Corporate Relations is approaching its first full year of service. July 1 will mark the office’s one-year anniversary of receiving its charge from UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley to provide assistance and guidance to...
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School has a new home: , a $55 million, 160,600-square-foot building that will unify the health sciences on the UW-Madison campus....
MADISON - With funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers will investigate what happens if infectious prion proteins - considered the cause of chronic wasting disease and mad cow disease - enter wastewater treatment plants....