Biotech

TomoTherapy, the Madison-based medical device manufacturer, has sold a second Hi-Art unit to City of Hope, a prominent California medical and research center. It is the same facility that last year used the Hi-Art System to perform the first total marrow irradiation....

A group of 21 Wisconsin angel investors have committed $1.25 million to a new Jersey company that is developing ways to lengthen the life of harvested organs and tissues. The investments leverage an earlier round that raised $1.0 million, giving Lifeblood Medical, Inc., more than...

The state of Wisconsin, which would like to establish Regional Health Information Organizations to accommodate the eventual sharing of medical information in electronic formats, has awarded a $110,000 contract to one such entity, the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange....

Who would have known that a sleeping anything could be so useful? The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and computer scientists at UW-Madison have found that even when computers are turned off, they still have superlinking capabilities. ...

The next state budget and the ensuing legislative session will be a watershed for Wisconsin. The building blocks have been put in place to move the Wisconsin economy in the right direction; we cannot afford to stop now....

The scientific community is taking the first tentative steps to address America's quiet crisis, the lack of young people entering the STEM disciplines. Organizers of a Discovery World exhibit set to open in Miwaukee this fall hope a little "wow" factor will turn kids on...

Kay Napier, whose marketing expertise has played a role in successful product launches at Proctor & Gamble and McDonald's Corp., has been named to the board of directors of Third Wave Technologies....

The Legislature's second snub of a Doyle ethanol proposal has the governor and his Secretary of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection wondering why Republican lawmakers don't support a growing industry....