With good reason, a description of a bioenergy seminar at last month's international biotech convention in San Diego included cautionary phrases such as "overcoming cost barriers" and "formidable scientific and technological challenges." Replacing or even supplementing fossil fuels such as petroleum won't happen overnight....
Madison, Wis. — The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, a public-private partnership locataed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has hired a scientific programs director to help bridge scientific disciplines and hopefully speed commercial technology development....
One of the great promises of embryonic stem cell research is being able to use human cloning to derive stem cells that carry genetic defects associated with myriad maladies, writes columnist Steve Clark, who explains recent scientific developments and raises some ethical questions....
Cancer therapies once again have become the driving force behind biotech industry growth, just as infectious diseases were a driving force for growth in the 1940s and 1950s, says columnist Michael Rosen. In this edition of Yer Biotech Blues, Rosen noted one similarity in the...
GWC Technologies and the Wisconsin Alumni Research foundation have reached an agreement to license a new technology that promises more robust data generation in an area that some believe is most likely to produce the next generation of disease-fighting therapies - protein analysis. The company...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued re-examination certificates for two stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The action concludes the re-exam for University of Wisconsin Madison's most important embryonic stem cell discoveries. The ruling on these patents cannot...
Spurring more venture capital investment is considered essential to the state's economic growth, which is the justification for capital formation programs like the Act 255 investor tax credit program. The Wisconsin Department of Commerce has qualified two more technology companies, Perscitus Biosciences of Madison...
A stem cell company co-founded by stem cell pioneer James Thomson has been named one of the nation's top 15 biotechnology companies by FierceBiotech, an online publication covering the biotech industry. Cellular Dynamics was cited for its work to give drug developers an earlier, more...
Proteins have been the basis of thousands of medicines and they are likely to be the most followed path in attacking disease, according to columnist Ogan Gurel. In this edition of MedTech Futures, Dr. Gurel asserts that the heyday of genetics will likely be a...
The 2008 Milken Institute State Technology and Science index ranks Wisconsin 22nd among the 50 states, up five spots from its 2004 ranking. Wisconsin now is the second ranking Midwestern state, behind only 14th ranked Michigan, in a report that evaluates states on an inventory...