Ahead of a U.N. summit in Copenhagen next month, scepticism is growing that an agreement will be reached on a global climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, due to expire in 2012. The protocol set targets aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which are believed...
The newly created NanoRite Advisory Board with Jeff West, former president of Silicon Logic Engineering, and Dr. Charles Sorensen, UW-Stout Chancellor, as chair and vice chair will help Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) by identifying prospective tenants, reviewing marketing activities and strategies and promoting the...
Computers capable of mimicking the human brain's power and efficiency could be just 10 years off, according to a leading researcher at IBM. According to the researcher, Dharmendra Modha, the manager of IBM's cognitive computing initiative, scientists from his company and some of the world's most...
Madisonb> - Promega Corporation and SwitchGear Genomics announce a novel method for characterizing DNA-protein interactions. Results of a study using the HaloCHIP™ System and high-throughput promoter assays demonstrate the ability to correlate DNA binding events to transcriptional activation or repression for the CREB transcription factor....
EraGen Biosciences Inc., a Madison biotechnology firm, has entered into a strategic partnership and licensing agreements with San Diego-based, Illumina that will give each firm access to the other's technology. EraGen, whose products focus on detecting infectious diseases and genetic disorders, will use Illumina’s analysis...
Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station on Monday with a 2:28 p.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle is transporting spare hardware to the outpost and return a station...
A small Madison company seeks funds to bring to market two technologies it believes will make flu vaccine production less costly and more efficient, and will increase the effectiveness of vaccines once they are administered....
The BioPharma Management Technologies Division of Wound Management Technologies, Inc., (WNDM) will search for partners to aid in leveraging its existing technology and infrastructure to develop opportunities within the International Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering fields. "Some of the most important developments in biotechnology and medical...
Microscopes are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive. Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute...
Maybe you are a small Wisconsin business, a Wisconsin health care company, a state agency or even a university researcher and would like to glean some of the largess from the federal recovery act. Or, perhaps you have a timely project that could use funding...