Science acting in concert with ethics could help generate a better crop of second generation of genetically modified crops, according to Paul B. Thompson, who argues that biotechnology has made some considerable contributions to the growing discussion about sustainability. “It’s useful to think of sustainability...
An article in InformationWeek states that the (NSF) grant recipients will explore image processing, large-scale data analysis, improving the Internet, human genome sequencing, and other areas. The National Science Foundation on Thursday said it has awarded nearly $5 million in grants to 14 universities, including UW-Madison,...
A new investigatory drug by ConjuGon Inc. has completed regulatory review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The application, used to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections, is now cleared to begin clinical trials. The drug, C-1205, is the company's lead product which uses bacterial...
Roche Madison Inc. opened its facility in University Research Park today. The building contains chemistry and biology labs for work with the company's global RNA Therapeutics group, which focuses on the discovery and development of innovative nucleic acid based technologies. The Madison division now employs...
MADISON, Wis. & ST. LOUIS Roche NimbleGen and Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq:SIAL) have started a collaboration to further chromatin immunoprecipitation-on-microarray (ChIP-chip) research by aligning their two complementary technologies, Roche NimbleGen’s ChIP-chip high-density microarrays and GenomePlex by Sigma-Aldrich. Together, the platforms enable researchers to effectively study the...
MADISON AND DENVER – Dr. Laura Strong of Quintessence Biosciences Inc. presented information about one of the company’s EVade Ribonuclease development programs at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Strong presented data from conjugates produced using the clinical candidate QBI-139...
Sustainability will be the focus of the eighth annual International Bioethics Forum to be held in Madison this Thursday and Friday, April 23 and 24. The forum, sponsored jointly by the BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute (BTCI), Promega Corp. and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, is...
The University of Wisconsin-Stout recently received a grant that will be allocated as scholarships for students studying science. The National Science Foundation awarded a Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics grant of $567,000 to UW-Stout’s applied science program for support of the project...
The first federally funded research in almost eight years involving new lines of human embryonic stem cells will be restricted to embryos created by in vitro fertilization and no longer needed by the couples who made them, according to draft guidelines announced by the National...
The U.S. pharmaceutical industry took a quantum leap in growth during World War II when the U.S. government requested several key companies like Pfizer and Squibb to help in the development of the first major antibiotic, which was used to help injured troops at the...