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Restriction Digests of DNA Isolated with the Perfectprep Gel Cleanup Kit

Gel Cleanup Kit George Halley, Eppendorf 5 Prime, Inc. Agarose gel electrophoresis is used extensively to separate and analyze DNA that is subsequently used for downstream applic...

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Isolation of Low Molecular Weight Digestion Products of the Human Platelet Thromboxane A2 Receptor, Rev A

Joseph W. Turek and Guy C. Le Breton, Department of Pharmacology,University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612.Address correspondence to: Joseph W. Turek, 835 South Wolcott, Departmentof Pharmacology M/C 868, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612.E-mail: jturek1@icarus.uic.edu Introduction...

The 10 biggest events shaping biotech in 2006

Here's my list, in order of importance: biofuels, stem cells, BIO 2006 in Chicago, the reshaping and resurgence of Abbott Labs, biogenerics in the U.S., the internationalizat...

Suggestions offered to foster high-growth business investment

A group of business investors and government representatives have suggested a series of changes to Wisconsin Act 255 that was enacted to stimulate investments in high-growth industries. Their suggestions were made to a state Senate committee on Wednesday. For more on that hearing, read: Regulations still stymie business investment in high-growth compa...

Privacy, trust still the biggest barriers to electronic record sharing

The question has been raised on many fronts, including the Congress, where some bills seek to provide incentives to encourage the adoption of interactive personal health records, and others that raise privacy concerns are construed...

Tech Digest: Merge eMed product updates; Renaissance Learning 3rd qtr results

, a Merge Healthcare company and a leading medical imaging software and services company, today announced the release of eFilm Workstation 2.1 and its plug-in Advanced Visualization and Clinical Application software modules. This latest release of the widely used deskt...

Tech Digest: MailFoundry; API Software

Green Bay, Wis. , maker of "human intelligence" based anti-spam solutions, announced two new high availability MailFoundry anti-spam appliances, the MailFoundry 6100 and 8100. They are priced at $6,999 and $12,999, respectively, with no user, domain or feature limits or restrictions.<br...

Tech Digest: Imago; RedPrairie

of Madison, Wis. The Tohoku University system is the third system Imago has installed in Japan in the last six months. Imago delivered the system in conjunction with its...

Tech Digest: Bruker AXS; RedPrairie

an X-ray microanalysis instrumentation company with annual revenues of $6-7 million, based in Berlin. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2005. Bruker AXS has its North American headq...

Tech Digest - API Software; RedPrairie; Dash

The SecurALL access control system of , Santa Fe, N.M. The SecurALL go-live is the first phase in a multifaceted implementation of API's Payrollmation time and attendance system, and its ActiveStaffer...

Tech Digest - RedPrairie; Wind Lake Solutions

, an art supply retailer, will implement RedPrairie DLx Warehouse and RedPrairie DLx Labor at its distribution center in Galesburg, Ill., to gain supply chain efficiencies. Blick, based in Highland Park, Ill., offers more than...

Tech Digest: Fiserv, IMS, Honeywell HomMed, Firstlogic

business in Boston would supply output services to Putnam Investments through an agreement that will bring Personix a significant distribution center in the Northeast. The former Putnam Distribution Center provides output services, including computer pr...

Tech Digest: Firstlogic, Fiserv, Red Prairie, Spectrum Brands, Associated Bank

Firstlogic, Inc. of La Crosse, Wis., and will be available worldwide in early 2006 on the Siebel 7.8 platform. Firstlogic provides enterprise-wide information quality and print and mail solutions. Siebel Systems p...

Tech Digest: Inacom; St. Michael's, St. Clare's hospitals; Merge eMed; Advanced Data-Comm; Blue Cross and Blue Shield

in the metro Atlanta area, the two companies announced Tuesday. The I.B.I.S., Inc. / Inacom Education partnership offers a variety of public classes from end user applications to technical courses, including Windows Serve...

The world's largest factory

Welcome to the event. Here extreme manufacturing meets extreme consumption. The sidekick nations simply dance around the leftover inventories and surplus raw materials. The remaining nations pray and hope that the mating of these two elephants will result in true love. The trade imbalances are way out of synch; envy and jealousy are the spoilers of this romantic...

Tech Digest: President to honor WARF; plus, Governor's tech-transfer award for entrepreneurs

on March 15 at a White House ceremony. The annual award is conferred by the president and recognizes "outstanding...

Tech Digest: UWM technologist leaving; Banta, API, Johnson Controls

said last week he would leave for the University of Cincinnati in April. Professor Jay Lee told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that he did not feel valued, and that UW-Milwaukee does not have good enough legal and other infrastructure to su...

Tech Digest: Futurists on learning; Sonic Foundry; Accu Tech; Fiserv

. The futurists meet at the Fluno Center in Madison. Based on her experience at the <...

Tech Digest: Renaissance, Rockwell, Norlight

-- Renaissance Learning, Inc., posted net income of $5.2 million in fourth-quarter 2004, on $25.8 million in revenues. That was down from $7.6 million on $31.4 million in fourth-quarter 2003. Renaissance Learning makes learning software, school improvement programs and teacher training systems. President and CEO John R. Hickey said the company was moving to a new sub...

Tech Digest: network outsourcing; UW astronomy; Merge acquisition

has renewed through 2010 its deal to buy...

Tech Digest: Commerce, business-plan contest, tech grants, Metavante

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has appointed Mary Burke, who was most recently the director of forecasting and planning for , to be the state's next commerce secretary starting February 7. Her predecessor, Cory Nettles, stepped down at the end of 2004 to take a job with a law firm...

Tech Digest: Madison wireless, angels, Third Wave, Esker, Research Park

The City of Madison received bids from to build wireless hotspots around the airport and Capitol lat...

Tech Digest: Modine, Johnson Controls profits; iPods; FBI

Racine-based The company makes heat-management products for trucks and other veh...

Tech Digest: Biotech Association, Fitchburg, RedPrairie

The to provide services to its members. Avicom will become an agency of record for the state trade association and will ho...

Tech Digest: Johnson Controls, Urban League

plans to sell its engine electronics business to Valeo, a French company that will pay approximately 330 million Euros, or $430 million in today's dollars. The business is headquartered in Pontoise, France. Johnson Controls bought it in 2001 from another Fr...

Tech Digest: Rayovac, Inacom, TomoTherapy, Regal-Beloit, Modine

has negotiated a contract to purchase St. Louis-based firm United Industries for $1.2 billion dollars of cash and common stock, with the deal expected to close in February. The deal will give Rayovac...

Tech Digest: OnCourse, Menasha, Fiserv, Rockwell

, an India-...

Tech Digest: Nanotechnology, GE Healthcare, NovaMed, PhysioGenix

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Tech Digest: Norlight, Criticare, ATC, Rockwell

announced on Friday that it has acquired the customer base and business assets of the Michigan-based Netcom Group for $1.5 million. The deal was made to give Norlights product range, including hosted IP telephony services and security soluti...

Tech Digest: Inacom, PKWare at Infosecurity, Firstlogic, Teklynx

, in its list of the top 25 executives in 2004. The magazine looked for influential leaders of large and small businesses in technology business. Benson ranked among executives from IBM, Cisco, In...

Tech Digest: Fiserv, Conjugon, Johnson Controls

is in negotiations with three major Australian banks Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank and Westpac Banking Corporation to manage the Vipro check processing system. If negotiations are completed successfully, the three b...

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Tech Digest: whats moving in the Midwest (10/20/04)

, a provider of wireless sensors with its U.S. headquarters in Milwaukee, has announced that it will be involved in a study of how wireless monitoring can report on the daily home life of patients with Alzheimers disease. The planned study will take three years and be...