Biotech

The Owen-Withee area of central Wisconsin is leading the way in the development of an agribusiness technology park along Highway 29 in northern Clark County. The land is part of what used to be the Clark County Farm and hosted what was Wisconsin Farm Progress...

The prospects for women who are scientists and engineers at major research universities have improved, although women continue to face inequalities in salary and access to some other resources, a panel of the National Research Council concludes in a new report. ...

One of the many outcomes of the recent BIO International Conference in Atlanta was the perception and comment by industry experts that Big Pharma companies are becoming dinosaurs. While the pharmaceutical industry hasn’t yet hit the wreckage status of the Western automobile industry, bad times...

Merge Healthcare, a medical imaging and health IT solutions provider, and etrials Worldwide, Inc. a provider of clinical trials software and services, today announced that they have reached a definitive agreement for the acquisition of etrials by Merge. The combined organization will provide clinical trial...

A Madison company aiming to put itself at the center of the evolving field of regenerative medicine said Wednesday that it has licensed a key patent portfolio involving the differentiation of stem cells into heart cells. Cellular Dynamics International negotiated an exclusive license to the technology...

Steve Clark compares the promise of the biotech industry with both the financial realities and the production realities. He cites the sobering study done by a professor at Harvard Business School, Gary Pisano, that compares the financial and productivity data for 293 publicly held...