Biotech

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....

MADISON - With the slim chance that farmers will stop planting crops containing genes from other organisms, researchers have started to develop strategies that trap these foreign genes, reducing the risk that they'll spread to wild relatives....

While the great rock concert halls and rock festivals of the 1960s have largely disappeared, the music culture generated by these musical Meccas continues (mostly in the form of “Farewell Tours” in basketball stadiums). ...

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...

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-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....