Bill Hendee, dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin graduate school since 1995, will retire at the end of this month to devote more time to a scientific journal he edits, and to a national initiative to teach doctors more about the underlying science of...
A generation ago, then-Gov. Lee Dreyfus made a few waves when he suggested that Wisconsin and other Great Lakes states should become "the blue-eyed Arabs of the Upper Midwest" by selling fresh water to the nation's fast-growing Sunbelt. Well, the issue of water as an...
In last week's article, I mentioned that the medical device market probably broke the $200 billion sales revenue mark last year. In fact, the market research firm Health Research International reports that 2005 medical device sales topped $220 billion and included 4 market segments....
Following its latest round of angel financing, aOva Technologies, a maker of egg protein products, plans to use $3 million in new funds to drive agricultural sales. But moving up in the pecking order may require upwards of 40,000 egg-producing hens....
Madison could become the home of the Midwest Biolink Incubator with the help of a $150,00 appropriation approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, and pushed by U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin....
Architects with designs on the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery, which will be built in the heart of the UW-Madison campus, have until July 18 to submit their proposals....
Following attempts to resolve the matter out of court, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the French company Arkopharma for allegedly violating the patent on a body fat reduction product....
Healthier first quarter revenues mean that Third Wave Technologies may be on its way to overcoming Wall Street disappointment, but that next profitable quarter is not yet in sight....
Associate professor Stephen Duncan and his research team are looking into the liver's "master switch" and its role in gene expression....
Turning up the heat on opponents of federal funding for new human embyonic stem cell lines, Gov. Jim Doyle made his case in three Wisconsin cities. ...