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Quantitation of the Protein MIA as a Marker for Chondrocytes in Research Samples

...individualswith rheumatic diseases associated with joint destruction,such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoart...s, associated withrheumatoid factor positivity and joint destruction. Therefore, MIA may be useful to discriminate rheumatoidarthritis from nondestructive rh...

Neurite outgrowth cell-by-cell analysis using the IN Cell Developer Toolbox

...ion to filter out debris mainly remaining from the joint points. g. Use the Dilate operation with the same kernel settings as the previous Erode step to restore the cell bodies bitmap so that the outer edge of the mask coincides with the cell bodies edge but no neurites are in...

LabVIEW for Measurement and Data Analysis

...o transfer a signal from the time domain into the joint time-frequency domain and vice versa. These routin...cking, a patented algorithm based on the ideas of joint time-frequency analysis. With the Gabor Order Tracking algorithm, LabVIEW users can ana...

Tapping the value of entrepreneurial advisors

...of individuals who had clinical trial expertise or joint development experience as people who made good Advisory Board members. Also, while a Board of Directors has requirements and obligations such as fiduciary duties to the company, an Advisory Board does not need to adhere to the same legal formalities...

Corporate venturing can nurture software success

...ella are acquisitions in early-stage companies and joint ventures. Lesser known, but with high potential, are internally focused business creation strategies, or internal corporate venturing initiatives. Some are conducted informally as skunk works projects, ad hoc idea creation, or the pursuit of opportun...

Virent enters agreement with Shell Oil unit to make hydrogen with biomass

...rent Energy Systems of Madison has entered into a joint agreement with Shell Hydrogen , a subsidiary of Shell Oil Co., to further develop and commercialize Virent's BioForming technology platform for hydrogen production. Virent and Shell Hydrogen will collaborate on the development and testing of hydrog...

Stem cell and regenerative medicine center to aid education and commerce

...etition The center, which will operate under the joint auspices of the UW-Madison Graduate School and the School of Medicine and Public Health, also could play a role in faculty recruitment and retention, especially as competition from other states and from Europe and Asia becomes more intense, Svendsen ...

Olympics of biotechnology has international flavor

...capitalist from this country, which has actually a joint venture with Burrill & Co. He is represents the outpost for looking at Asian technologies and companies for Burrill, using his base in Kuala Lumpur to travel to India, Singapore, Korea, China, etc. Host organism Boston is sporting a brand new co...

Wisconsin can offer what a federal energy research lab needs

...isconsin the serious consideration it deserves. A joint proposal was filed Feb. 1 by the University of Wisconsin System , UW-Madison , and Michigan State University to open a federal energy research lab in Madison. Molly Jahn, dean of the UW-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences , has desc...

CIO Leadership Series: Tanya Townsend, Saint Clare's Hospital

...nd a master's degree in medical informatics from a joint program between the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee School of Engineering . She hasn't had a lot of female company in the technology ranks during her previous stops at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee and Aurora Baycare Medical Cen...

Johnson Controls deals for asset-tracking software

...er building types, Johnson Controls has signed a joint sales and marketing agreement with PanGo Networks . The Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls, which provides systems, technology, and services to buildings - including more than 40 percent of North American hospitals - said the agreement will expand it...

The 10 biggest events shaping biotech in 2006

... Department of Agriculture / Department of Energy joint study, the U.S. could produce 60 billion gallons of ethanol by 2030 through a combination of grain and cellulosic feedstocks - enough to replace 30 percent of projected gasoline demand - without harming food, feed, or fiber production. According to...

I can tell you - you're my lawyer, right?

...id the fees of counsel to its employees, entered a joint defense agreement with its employees, shared information with its employees, or failed to terminate one or more of its employees. The DOJ did just this in its prosecution of KPMG over tax shelters that it deemed illegal. By doing so, the DOJ was ab...

Big pharma seeks Wisconsin biotech partnerships

...nology companies and actively searching for future joint projects. As an investor in Renovar , Astellas already is involved in Wisconsin, and its research institute in Evanston, Ill. and its North American headquarters in Deerfield, Ill. could provide other interested Wisconsin businesses with nearby mee...

Quintessence cancer treatment chosen for clinical studies

...cer treatments, presented results for QB139 at the joint meeting of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer , the U.S. National Cancer Institute , and the American Association for Cancer Research in Prague, Czech Republic....

Virent lands $2M grant for chemical production

...lene glycol. The grant was awarded as part of the joint USDA-DOE Biomass Research and Development Initiative , which was established to develop of technologies that make bio-based fuels cost-competitive with fossil fuels. Virent, whose investors include Cargill and Honda , has developed a patented Bi...

Japan on the rebound: Implications for Midwest

... from its own quickly growing subsidiary and 50/50 joint venture with Abbott Labs : TAP Pharmaceuticals . Most Japanese revenue in Europe and the U.S. is from out-licensing its drugs, which brings in a lower level of income and market risk. Even the companies with annual sales of $2 billion or more are u...

What makes Silicon Valley so different?

..., as the city of Zaragoza in Spain is doing in a joint project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build a "Digital Mile" city within a city. Focus financial resources into venture vehicles that build a practice of investment and incubation. Still, these concepts don't entirely account f...

Johnson Controls partners on car satellite linkup

...hnson Controls Inc. in Milwaukee have announced a joint development relationship which will enable TomTom satellite navigation devices to become integrated into automotive electronic systems. Johnson Controls' 'Bluetooth Mobile Device Gateway,' targeted for production in 2008 model year vehicles, enables...

Doyle announces $80M renewable energy strategy

Madison, Wis. - Gov. Jim Doyle today proposed a joint public-private initiative to allocate $80 million in state funds for the development of renewable energy programs in Wisconsin. Doyle said the money - which includes tax credits, low-interest loans, and grants that would come from business developme...

Berbee believes acquisition by CDW will make it a national IT player

...ond organic means through future acquisitions. A joint transition team will look at branding and other points of integration between the companies and their customers. CDW expects the acquisition to increase 2007 earnings by approximately $0.05 per diluted share. At the close of trading on the day the a...

Donley has growth plans for stem cell bank

...rt services, Donley has targeted for expansion its joint project with the Madison-based NimbleGen Systems, Inc. and its Iceland facility. Dr. James Thomson, the first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells, and his collaborators have reached capacity limits in the labs currently available there....

Protein lab could prosper under new owner

... facility, Changzhou SPL, is the product of a 1999 joint venture between SPL and Techpool Bio-Pharma Co., Ltd. The new owner American Capital now owns 87 percent of SPL, and the company's existing managers own the remainder. The firm has 150 investment professionals in 10 offices in the U.S. and Euro...

Nano-diamond film studied at UW could advance telecommunications

... force microscopy made him a key collaborator on a joint project to develop this technology. Argonne National Laboratory leads the project, which has received a $1.4 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , the central research and development organization for the U.S. Depart...

Johnson Controls partnership wins new contract

...motive Research , awarded a 24-month contract to a joint venture run by Johnson Controls and Saft . The...ontrols' hybrid battery business and leader of the joint venture. "Our priorities are to work on cell performance, systems development, and cost reduction fo...

MATC bio-diesel reactor to support training

...g technology. The reactor, developed as part of a joint project between MATC and the University of Wiscon...nce January 2005. Collegiate collaboration The joint reactor project was a truly collaborative effort. Instructors from MATC and UW-Madison began talking...

Small Tree branches out with affordable video

...and other large volumes of uncompressed data. The joint solution promises Apple Mac OS X users in these creative-content industries an affordable network connection that would reduce the time demand for specialized data transfer tasks. The solution, spawned by a partnership between local networking and s...

CATI venture part of new tech-transfer strategy

....J.-based International Specialty Products . The joint venture model is seen by CATI as the next big wave in acquiring underutilized, or "off-strategy" technologies, and making them available to entrepreneurs or existing companies in southeastern Wisconsin. It also marks a change from the previous techn...

Modine adapts military research to idling engines

...off product applies knowledge gained from Modine's joint research with the U.S. Army to develop a CO 2 -based cooling solution for military vehicles. Modine, which saw its profiits drop 21% in the most recent quarter due to the high cost of raw materials, asserted that the patent-pending product could p...

Doyle launches 2025 alternative energy plan

...aration of Energy Independence," Doyle initiated a joint public-private effort to generate 25 percent of electricity and transportation fuel from renewable sources by 2025. "America is facing an energy crisis," Doyle said at Virent Energy Systems in Madison. "It's a crisis of affordability for middle-cl...

UW links with Israeli school to locate genes

...said both groups began to use Superlink-Online for joint research. The system was set up so projects could be submitted through a Web portal at Technion and transferred to UW-Madison, where Superlink computing also can be sent to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Illinois. "We are n...

Symphony Corp. and CareEvolution to partner

...gy free of cost. CareEvolution also applauded the joint initiative, one year in the making, and will expand service offerings in clinical information systems, healthcare assessment tools, and predictive healthcare assessment in community Health Information Exchange (HIE) development. "We are looking forw...

Japanese delegates highlight Wisconsin at BIO Chicago

...hile, Third Wave Technologies recently announced a joint venture in Japan with Mitsubishi on personalized medicine. Mitsubishi now owns about 14 percent of Third Wave Japan. Third Wave's history in Japan began in 2000 with a collaboration with genetic researcher Yusuke Nakamura of the RIKEN Institute/Univ...

State commits $500,000 to boost bachelor's degrees

...the Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion (COBE), a joint committee of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Technical College System. Higher-education attainment is closely linked with per-capita income, a key motivation for the initiative. "It's simple - the more Wisconsin citizens who hol...

Merge subsidiary to provide software to Mayo clinic

... and communications system (PACS), helping support joint arthroplasty, spine, trauma, deformity corrections, image manipulation, and image stitching, the firm said. Mayo Clinic has 70 orthopaedic surgeons among its practices in Jacksonville, Florida; Rochester, Minnesota; and Scottsdale, Arizona....

Polar neutrino observatory construction leaps ahead

...Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. NSF, through a joint program of its Office of Polar Programs and its Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate, is contributing more than $240 million to the international partnership that is building the detector, which will cost $272 million overall. Although wor...

John Bergman, co-founder of Guild Software

...et, was bought out by Time Warner Telecom, and the joint entity declared its intentions to go public. The IPO presented Bergman with a tremendous opportunity. "I had some college money that had been given to me by my family," Bergman said. As a high school dropout, Bergman did not expect to use the money f...

Was the Telecom Act of 1996 a boon or bomb for U.S.?

...government downsizing. The act also establishes a joint board on universal service to advise the FCC on modifying the definition of universal service. Redefining what universal service is and creating a mechanism to fund every eligible phone company to provide it, though, might prove to be a form of telew...

New alliance to provide Wi-Fi network for City of Madison

... out of a process that began with the release of a joint RFP in December 2004 by the City of Madison, Dane County and State of Wisconsin. The wireless network had a launch date targeted for July 2005. An AOL-led consortium was awarded the first contract, but AOL withdrew from the project in September afte...

Wisconsin private college group picks Jenzabar for common IT platform

...resident. A priority of the WAICU project was the joint purchase, implementation, and support of a common administrative system, Wegenke said. The Jenzabar EX system offers applications designed to support areas including student services, institutional research, financial and business management, human ...

RFID technology is opportunity for Wisconsin companies

... 2001. It now participates in EPC Global Inc., a joint venture between EAN International and the Uniform Code Council that's working to define RFID standards. Last year, the Auto-ID Center handed over RFID standards development to EPC Global. In July, Kimberly-Clark began formal testing of Generation 2...

Johnson Controls jumping further into hybrid-vehicle battery world

...roviders for such cars. The Panasonic company is a joint venture of Toyota and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Johnson Controls has been laying the groundwork to capture a share of the market, which is expected to expand dramatically over the next several years. Johnson Controls is the world's larges...

StrandVision signs joint marketing agreement with Pacific Signage

...h., on Monday announced that they have finalized a joint marketing agreement. Under the agreement, StrandVision resellers and customers will be provided with a custom login to the Pacific Signage online catalog where they will receive information that will help them specify, design and implement digital s...

UW-Madison helps Imago carry out its big vision for seeing small

...hen I was a postdoc." Moving pictures The latest joint project between Imago and UW-Madison began in July. Funded by the university's Industrial & Economic Development Research (I&EDR) program, it involves materials science and engineering professors Dane Morgan and Izabela Szlufarska. By harnessing the ...

The world's largest factory

...ed goods. So, are Western entrepreneurs exploring joint manufacturing in China for local and global consumption? Why not, and if so, why so little? Two: The Red culture The language and the mystery of the Chinese culture are far too foreign to most Western nations. Although many who engage in frequent...

UW-Oshkosh launching Global MBA with schools in Germany, India

...S. Sridhar, an organizer of Global MBA. "This is a joint effort of reputed institutions in three economic powers that will impart knowledge, skills and abilities to managers who aspire to effectively lead their organizations into the 21st century." Other organizers from UW-Oshkosh are business faculty mem...

Whitewater upgrades tech degree program

...ter End-User Technologies program, is a product of joint work between the school and the business sector, and will begin this fall semester. It places a far greater emphasis than its predecessor on networking in addition to basic programming, according to Professor John Chenoweth, and will modify itself fr...

NameProtect partners with Oregon firm to boost fraud detection

...NameProtection's daily alerts on site status. The joint solution, currently used by more than 30 financial institutions worldwide, offers advance detection and response to phishing scams against the bank network and scans the organization Web sites to prevent hijacking of domain names. Users also have acc...

GE Healthcare develops digital medication system

... organization based in Salt Lake City, announced a joint project for the development of a new electronic me...urses and engineers from GE and IHC will work at a joint clinical research center to be based in West Valley, Utah. The clinical IT will incorporate hand-hel...

Gaming technologies alter classroom, textbook models

...y Games And Professional Practice Simulations , a joint project of the Advanced Academic Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab and a group of instructors at the UW-Madison School of Education. "I think...we're beginning to see the era of collective intelligence. We're now moving our focus on the individua...

Education conference to draw together games researchers

... by Games And Professional Practice Simulations, a joint project of the Advanced Academic Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab and a group of instructors at the UW-Madison School of Education. Speakers include educators and developers from companies such as Eidos Interactive and Turbine Entertainment Software...

Southeastern Wisconsin Technology Collaboration

...f - are together now calling on companies with our joint portfolios." While a number of reasons for this new wave of collaborations over technology in southeastern Wisconsin, most of those involved with the deals seem to agree that they've been motivated by an overall desire to increase jobs and innovatio...

With ethics guidelines, political consensus emerging on stem-cell research

...l, but for now, the Legislature's most influential joint committee has said "no" to attempts to prevent Wisconsin scientists from following up on their own discoveries. Why are some federal and state legislators, including many in the Republican Party, standing up to those who have equated human-embryonic...

EraGen gets $250,000 state loan to revamp manufacturing facility

...s expected to create about 75 jobs, according to a joint announcement by the firm and Governor Jim Doyle. The loan will help EraGen meet the demand resulting from a worldwide distribution deal with Bayer HealthCare for its cystic fibrosis tests. That deal was announced last week. "One of the major driv...

Wisconsin Health Information Exchange shares burden of electronic medical records

...of Engineering and Medical College of Wisconsin's joint master of science in medical informatics program. "If you're a doctor and I send you a patient's information in a PDF file, it's about the same as faxing it. The machine can't do anything with that information." "If I send you structured data, where...

Hone your pre-interview skills or you may lose that tech job

... launches, recalls, major marketing initiatives or joint ventures. You could spend hours on Google, and if the job is important to you, it's worth it. Having a solid knowledge of the company not only improves your interview answers but your confidence level as well. That's priceless. Before you leave Goog...

Milwaukee could boom with explosion of information technology in medical care

...ng done by Wisconsin's Marshfield Clinic, or other joint projects involving UW-Madison. However, Milwaukee has the right combination of talent and size to create more spin-off companies. It's only a matter of getting organized, and that's what the Biomedical Technology Alliance is all about. Tom Still is...

Japan's pharma mergers will trickle to the Midwest

..., also made a similar investment in the U.S. via a joint venture with Warner-Lambert in the U.S. The compan...ents and a presence in Illinois and previously had joint ventures with Searle and NutraSweet. With the large JETRO Chicago presence in the Midwest, other Ja...

Madison wi-fi plans move ahead

...eless Wisconsin. The proposals were evaluated by a joint review team representing the city of Madison, Dane County and state. No taxpayer dollars will be used to build or operate the service. Access to various local Web sites would be free, while full access to the Internet would come a daily, monthly or l...

Will tech transfer save Wisconsin's economy?

... Technology Alliance, a group that will facilitate joint research between its member institutions. According to Brostrom, an organization like BTA is necessary to allow the collective universities and colleges in southeast Wisconsin to work together, as do the various departments and entities that make up...