Madison has landed another maker of bioscience tools as part of a $5.85 million venture capital deal. Caden Biosciences will occupy 2,700 square feet in the Fitchburg Technology Campus, and have access to a community rich with life science workers. ...
Ethanol producers in Wisconsin and elsewhere have become attractive acquisition targets for investors, but should they sell? Geoffrey Morgan and Greg Lynch, attorneys and partners at the Wisconsin law firm Michael Best & Friedrich, recommend establishing long-term objectives and carefully examining five options. ...
A Wisconsin biotechnology company is seeking to commercialize medicines to treat the diseases of aging, and it has adopted a business model that seeks to shoot down one degenerative disease at a time - perhaps before stem cell research gets a chance to. ...
With the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a proving ground, a group of college students has developed an online business model, and American college students are the target market. If they are successful in driving users to the site, their goal is to eliminate transaction fees...
Mithridion, Inc., a Madison-based biopharmaceutical start-up, is moving into the next phase of drug research and development with $296,800 in federal grants. One grant, which is designed to promote technology transfer, will enable collaboration between the company and University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Jeffrey Johnson....
Madison attorney Joe Boucher wishes cities in Northern Wisconsin were as technology savvy as Madison, and that includes his hometown of Marinette. In this guest column for WTN, Boucher opines that the northland can be more dynamic economically by embracing technology and innovation. ...
Rebecca Ryan and Jack Schultz will be among the speakers and panelists discussing a range of economic issues confronting rural areas and small towns during the 2006 West Central Wisconsin Education Consortium Conference. The event will be held on September 20 and 21 at the...
A modest Renewable Fuels Standard was established in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and two Wisconsin politicians have endorsed a Congressional effort to raise it. During a visit to West Salem, Gov. Jim Doyle and Congressman Ron Kind stumped to place higher alternative fuel...
The new director of Silicon Pastures sees greener pastures ahead for angel investment in Wisconsin, but Teresa Esser thinks the state's technology and biotechnology companies should brag a little bit more. If not, Leading IT columnist Geoff Bastow writes that she'll be happy to do...
Yet another discovery has roiled the ongoing debate over the use of human embryonic stem cells in scientific research. This time, researchers believe they have eliminated the main objections to stem cell research - the destruction of embryos. ...