Imago sells microscope to Iowa State

Imago Scientific Instruments has sold one of its atom probe microscopes to Iowa State University's College of Engineering for use later this fall. According to the company, the microscope could lead to advances in energy, healthcare, and anti-terrorism efforts....

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology, a Milwaukee-based medical informatics company, has partnered with the University of California-Davis Cancer Center to install an information manager with oncology-specific electronic medical record technology. As part of the deal, UC-Davis will provide expertise for TeraMedica's Oncology Advisory Board....

If you're like a lot of technology and life-science executives, you wonder where your next venture round will come from, and who is competing for those same dollars. If you're not familiar with investors, Private Placements columnist Matt Storms suggests you consider intermediaries known as...

When it comes to network security, many business executives are talking a good game, but too few actually are walking the walk, according to a panel of technology executives. They may want to entertain their next move, however, because security neglect is likely to be...

Wisconsin may never be Silicon Valley when it comes to entrepreneurial churn, but it has the capacity to become less risk averse. That was one of several messages to come out of the ninth annual E-Business Best Practices and Emerging Technologies Conference....

Madison's bioscience business community is widely known as one of the premier locations for research collaboration and growth, but the arrival of Northwestern University's Caden Biosciences could be a sign that Madison has reached a "critical mass" of talent and technological resources....

The beta test, once used only to test and prepare products for the "prime time" of market competition, is cynically being used as a mechanism to woo investors and lock out competitors, according columnist Chris Shipley. In this edition of DEMO Letter, Shipley calls out...

The obviousness of inventions is an issue in the challenge to stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and it's the subject of a case now before the United States Supreme Court. At stake, according to Madison attorney and Guest Columnist Chris...

Federal approval has been given to GE Healthcare's new SnapShot Cine, an imaging feature that compensates for patient heart rates to enable clinicians to obtain images of the heart. It captures images with a 70 percent reduction in radiation dose per exam, which is an...

Orion Energy Systems, a designer and manufacturer of energy management products and services, will use capital from The Technology Transformation Venture Fund and the Capvest Venture Fund to develop new technologies for U.S. businesses in search of large energy efficiency solutions. The Plymouth, Wis.-based energy...