Reykjavik connection: How teamwork produced a stem cell breakthrough

For those who wonder if all this new scientific collaboration is really beneficial, the recent stem cell discovery should provide ample proof, according to columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still notes that collaboration has born fruit with NimbleGen's laboratory and production...

Quintessence Biosciences will receive two Phase I small business innovation research grants totaling more than $280,000 for the continued development of cancer-fighting drugs. The Madison biotechnology company, which is preparing its lead drug candidate, will use the grants to develop second generation anti-cancer products....

Stratatech Corp., a Madison-based regenerative medicine company, has been awarded a $975,000 “fast-track” SBIR grant from the National Institute on Aging. The grant will allow Stratatech to accelerate its development of wound-care products....

What other public-policy issues must we address to get our country focused on a real direction for success? It's a question posed by James Carlini in this edition of Carlini's Comments, where he explores this and other questions as readers sound off on a recent...

Not every American company has come down with “green fever,” but those who have stand to reap strong business and public relations benefits. Madison's CDW Berbee is building a new data center with more than twice the power and density of its existing data centers,...

In 2002, federal legislation was passed requiring states to comply with new voter registration requirements, but as Wisconsin approaches the 2008 elections, its voter registration software system is still not working properly, according to a new Legislative Audit Bureau report. Its failure to enable tasks...

The recent discovery by scientists in Wisconsin and Japan not only resolves ethical issues associated with embryonic stem cell research, it will lead to more practical and effective stem cell research, according to the executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life. In this guest column...

Former Wisconsin governor and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson has been elected to the board of yet another technology company. This time it's the Reston, Va.-based Harmony Health, which joins the likes of Logistics Health in La Crosse as the corporate boards Thompson...