What do you get when you combine a producer of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging products with an experienced distributor of medical instrumentation? With any luck, you find a way to capture a growing market in presurgical brain mapping applications. ...
The resignation of three key executives, including the founder of the company, has rocked a Wisconsin software developer that has been sued by its shareholders. Merge Healthcare acknowledges improper accounting dating back three years, and faces possible delisting by the NASDAQ....
Big Pharma continues to face substantial sales and profit declines, with drugs losing patent protection, and there is a new twist on how Big Pharma will manage the loss of patent exclusivity. But pharma's stocks are still healthier than those of its biotech cousins....
GWC is trying to help customers find out what proteins are up to, and it is finding some very encouraging chemistry in its new home, the MGE Innovation Center....
BD Biosciences will become the 12th private company to use stem cells derived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after signing an agreement with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to develop new tools for stem cell researchers....
Waukesha's Prodesse has licensed patents from Roche and can include the Swiss pharmaceutical firm's enzymes in its products for testing infectious diseases....
Clinicians now are unable to fully meet the National Kidney Foundation guidelines for treating and preventing vitamin D deficiency and secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients with chronic kidney disease, but a merger of Wisconsin and Canadian companies seeks to address this with a variety of Vitamin...
Researchers worldwide have submitted more than 220 initial proposals for seed grants that will lay the foundation for the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Up next: a faculty review process....
The shareholders of Bruker BioSciences, the parent of Bruker AXS in Madison, have approved the purchase of its affiliate company, Bruker Optics, Inc. The move should allow Bruker BioSciences to expand its market reach into a number of scientific and medical fields....
UW-Madison professor James Dumesic has refined a catalytic method that makes industrial chemicals, not just fuels, from biomass, and the implications are real for industry and the environment....