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Promega and Benitec settle contract case

Under the terms of the settlement, Promega will hold a worldwide non-exclusive license from Benitec to make and sell research products based around Benitec's DNA-directed RNA interfe...

Sensenbrenner and USPTO Director highlight benefits of technology transfer

Hartland, Wis. At a meeting Monday highlighting university-business partnerships in Wisconsin, , a medical imaging company based in Hartland, Wis., demonstrated its latest tool for assessing cardiovascular health to John Dudas, acting under secretary of commerce for the <a href="http://www.uspto.gov/" target=...

Nebraska bank benefits from Fiservs integrated solutions

Brookfield, Wis. A Midwestern community bank can now remove the guesswork out of customer profitability analyses, based on the integration of two technologies from two separate divisions of Wisconsin-based Fiserv. , located in Laurel, Nebraska, can now view financial relationship data from any of its desktops and ident...

Benchmark Plus Microplate Reader Scan Well Feature

Theresa Redila-Flores and Li Tian, PhD, Bio-Rad Laboratories, 2000 AlfredNobel Drive, Hercules, CA 94547 USA The Benchmark Plus microplate reader is a new monochromator- based absorbance reader from Bio-Rad that offers superior convenience, accuracy, and flexibility. The Benchmark Plus is controlled by Microplate Manager...

Cell Proliferation Assay Using the Benchmark Plus Microplate Spectrophotometer

William C Heiser, PhD and Ma Theresa Redila-Flores, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc . , Hercules, CA 94547 USA An accurate and rapid assessment of viable cell number and proliferation is often required for in vitro and in vivo experiments. These assessments are necessary and useful for analysi...

Benchmark Plus Microplate Reader: Quantitation of Protein Concentration Using Two Different Colorimetric Assay Kits, Rev A

Theresa Redila-Flores, Bio-Rad Laboratories, 2000 Alfred Nobel Drive,Hercules, CA 94547 USA The Bradford and Lowry assays are 2 colorimetric assays that are commonly used to quantitate protein concentration. Bio-Rads protein assay (catalog #500-0001), based on the Bradford dye-binding assay (Bradford 1976), measures t...

P. pastoris Fermentation using a BioFlo 110 Benchtop Fermentor

Introduction This Application Report is part of a series documentingculture growth in the BioFlo 110. With appropriatevessels and control modules, the BioFlo 110 can efficientlygrow yeast and bacteria, as well as mammalian,plant cells and insect cells. Pichia pastoris:...

CHO Cell Culture Application Using a BioFlo 110 Benchtop Bioreactor

This Application Report is one in a series documentingsimple protocols for culturing cells in a BioFlo 110 benchtop fermentor/bioreactor system. Themodular BioFlo 110 is offered with an extensivechoice of vessels, impellers and control modules toenable growth of a wide variety of c...

E. coli Fermentation Using a BioFlo 110 Bench-Top Fermentor

Introduction This Application Report is part of a series documenting culture growth in the BioFlo 110. With appropriatevessels and control modules, the BioFlo 110 can be used to efficiently grow mammalian cells, plant cells,insect cells, yeast, and bacteria. For this report, a standard 7.5L Bio...

Insect Cell Culture Using a BioFlo 110 Benchtop Bioreactor

Introduction This Application Report is one in a series documentingsimple protocols for culturing cells in a BioFlo 110benchtop fermentor/bioreactor system. The modularBioFlo 110 is offered with a variety of vessels, impellersand control modules to enable growth of a wide varietyof cultures,...

Hybridoma Cell Culture Application Using a BioFlo 110 Benchtop Bioreactor

This Application Report is one in a series documentingsimple protocols for culturing cells in a BioFlo 110benchtop fermentor/bioreactor system. The modularBioFlo 110 is offered with an extensive choice of vessels,impellers and control modules to enable growth ofa wide variety of c...

Optimizing Your Benchscale Fermentation Process

An advanced new benchtop fermentor and cell culturebioreactor system has been developed, which for thefirst time enables you to optimize process control byintegrating data from up to 11 external devices*. This meansthat data from your scales, gas analyzers, supplementarypumps, cell mass sensors, and so on, can be directly added andcascaded...

High Yield Protein Production from Pichia pastoris Yeast: A Protocol for Benchtop Fermentation

Over the last several decades, geneticists have learned how to manipulate DNA to identify,excise, move and place genes into a variety of organisms that are quite different genetically fromthe source organism. A major use for many of these recombinant organisms is to produceprot...

Fundamentals of Fermentation: Techniques For Benchtop Fermentors

Part I - E. col Prepared by the R & D Lab, New Brunswick Scientific Co., Inc. The following document outlines step-by-stepprocedures for carrying out a benchtop fermentation,particularly when using an NBS fermentor. Provided in aquestion and answer format, this article cov...

Siemens health services president calls IT benefits unassailable

- both recently were named among the T...

Visions: Benson touts embedded innovation

awards program, scheduled for May 21 in Madison. The program seeks to provide financial, mentoring, and other resources to women entrepreneurs who want to take their business...

Damn the incumbents, and full speed ahead

Speed is the common measurement that cuts across many products and services as the general metric for assessing whether or not a produ...

Miszewski touts benefits of IT integration

The man governor Jim Doyle hired to manage the State of Wisconsin's information technology consolidation gave a progress report Thursday on the troubled project, now the subject of a state audit, during a "Consolidation for Optimization" program at the Concourse Hotel. <div cl...

Milwaukee DRS unit benefiting from $43 in Navy contracts

The Navy contracts are to design and produce power conversion, distribution and control equipment for next-generation and existing classes of Navy combatant surface ships and submarines, the company announced...

State criticized over BadgerNet 2 execution; some doubt benefits

Critics of the state's plan to replace its decade-old video and data network, BadgerNet, were surprised to hear on Tuesday that a contract with an SBC-headed alliance had already been signed. The Wisconsin BadgerNet Access Alliance, a group of companies including SBC, Verizon, Norlight, CenturyTel and local telcos, has been contracted to build...

Small businesses to benefit from Business Filings partnership

Sample newsletter Source: Constant Contact Through a partnership with e-mail marke...

Five ways your company can benefit from patent searches

Did you know there are at least five different types of patent searches you can use to help your company? They include: (1) a search for competitors patents, (2) a clearance search, (3) a patentability search, (4) a right-to-use search and (5) a patent validity search. Each type of search has a different strategy and a different goal. A search...

U.S. manufacturing benefits if utilities can assist them with energy efficiency efforts

As is so often the case with any form of legislation, each individual law represents a compromise built around a coalition of diverse forces. In the case of energy and electricity, one needs to look no further than the way most states reward regulated utilities for providing electricity. Each utility is allowed to make a return on its fixed-cost investments, for each unit of electricity sold, whi...

Heart patients benefit from digital image network

Hartland, Wis. -- The C...

Physicians benefit from CRM tools

Middleton, Wis. By utilizing targeted direct-mail marketing, Middleton-based (CPM) has brought a Midwestern health care provider unexpected returns: Forty-six patients for a new primary-care physician, 505 overall new patients and $152,944 net profit. CPM is a provider of relationship management solutions for h...

Former Oracle VP reveals thoughts on benefits of IT

Madison, Wis. -- George Roberts, former executive vice president of and University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus, spoke about how businesses can streamline operations using new technology and how information technology companies can become profitable last Wednesday. His speech was a part of <a href=" http://mslive.sonicfoundry...

Real-Time Data Warehouse Benefits Healthcare Providers

Hospital administrators and clinicians can reduce medial errors, improve patient safety and run a more efficient healthcare organization by using data warehouses to automate the costly processes of data collection, organization and analysis. Less than 5 percent of healthcare organizations research outcome and process improvement strategies, despite the dramatic cost reductions, revenue...

Inacoms Benson Receives Top Industry Recognition

MADISON, WI Having customers, employees, vendors and partners feel good about doing business and working together is second nature for Laurie Benson, CEO and co-founder of Benson and Inacom were recently recognized and award...