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Grow Milwaukee includes millions for tech funding

The package, which Doyle alluded to in last week's <a href="http...

Gala Biotech among companies sold for $3.3 billion

for $3.3 billio...

Cingular Wireless to invest $300 million in Illinois and Wisconsin

Nationwide, the company will spend $6.2 billion to enhance and expand its Allover network nationwide over the next year. Earlier year,...

Platypus Technologies receives $1.6 million NIH grant

The Small Business Innovation Research grant is for continued development of the company's proprietary liquid crystal based technology to enable faster screening of drugs for treatment of cancer. The com...

Massachusetts firm to buy UW spinoff Bone Care for $600 million

Bone Care and Genzyme, a 24-year-old company with annual revenues of more than $2 billion and almost 7,000 employees w...

SLE of Eau Claire lands $2.2 million in federal contracts

In a long-planned departure from its traditional focus, high-end computer chip company Silicon Logic Engineering has contracted with the U.S. Army for development of two different products. SLE, based in Eau Claire, announced today that it has secured $2.2 million in federal contracts for fiscal year 2005. The company has been working with the Armys Research, Development and Engineering...

Delivery of pCMV-S DNA Using the Helios Gene Gun System Is Superior to Intramuscular Injection in Balb/c Mice

Andrew Conn, Lindy Durrant, and Ian Spendlove, Cancer ResearchCampaign Academic Unit, Nottingham City Hospital, Hucknall Road,Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK Gene gun immunization through the skin is a reliable and reproducible method of DNA vaccine delivery, and has been shown to be capable of inducing...

Inoculation of Viral RNA and cDNA to Potato and Tobacco Plants Using the Helios Gene Gun

Tuija Kekarainen and Jari P. T. Valkonen, Department of Plant Biology, SwedishUniversity of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), P.O. Box 7080, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden Particle bombardment is a physical method widely used for gene transfer into plants, mammals, fungi and bacteria (Armaleo et al. 1990, Klein et...

Detection of Reporter Gene Activity in Cell Cultures and Murine Epidermis After Helios Gene Gun-Mediated Particle Bombardment

Andreas Henke and Eunike Grohmann, Institute of Virology, Medical Center,Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Winzerlaer Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany The Helios gene gun-mediated DNA transfer can be usedas a fast and efficient method to transfect living cells. Inthis study we describe the preparation of DNA-coatedmicroc...

Transformation of Nematodes With the Helios Gene Gun

, 1 Institut fr Mikrobiologieund Molekularbiologie der Justus-Liebig Universitt Gieen, Frankfurter Str.107, D-35392, Gieen, 2 Institut fr Parasitologie der Justus-Liebig-UniversittGieen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Str. 2, D-35392 Gieen...

Venture Investors' early-stage fund grows to $115 million

The Madison-based venture capital firm, which raised $69 million in the initial closing, said the additional funding places Early Stage Fund IV among the largest Midwest...

Two convicted of selling $6 million in counterfeit Rockwell software on eBay

Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher for the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Steven B...

NimbleGen to discontinue IPO after Roche's $272.5 million acquisition

NimbleGen had sought to raise $75 million in the IPO, but un...

Stem cells get most attention, but they are only part of Wisconsin's bio-portfolio

Wisconsin's high-tech loss leader these days are human embryonic stem c...

TomoTherapy raises $223 million in IPO

TomoTherapy, a portfolio company of , offered common stock at $19 per share, and expects to receive $185 million in ne...

Fiserv reports $113.5 million in Q1 profit

The company, which develops electronic products for the financial services industry, said net income was down from the $116.2 million reported in the same quar...

Investors raise $25 million for biodiesel plant

The $60 million plant, to be developed by North Prairie Produc...

Mirus Bio, Pfizer enter multimillion-dollar research agreement

Russell Smestad, president of Mirus Bio, said the lack of effective delivery methods has been an Achilles' heel th...

ConjuGon raises $3.3 million to fund clinical trials

The Madison-based ConjuGon will use the capital for clinical trials of its treatment for the infections of large wounds, and to fund the developm...

TrafficCast secures $1 million line of credit

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Make Mine a $Million shoots for May program

Although the date of the awards program has not yet been made official, Wisconsin's female entrepreneurs - incl...

300 millionth American no cause for eco-alarm

Desp...

Risks and returns: Building a search engine marketing portfolio

Managing a search engine marketing campaign effectively is a lot like managing any investment portfolio: you want...

State puts up $1 million for James Thomson's new stem cell startup

Thomson, the professor who first isolat...

Nerites raises $1 million to improve medical tech

Nerites is moving toward human clinical trials to verify the efficacy of two products: adhesives that bind tissues together in aqueous environment...

Summer venture investments total $18 million for Wisconsin start ups

While it is difficult to draw firm conclusions from one quarter of investment activity, the number could indicate that technologically innovative companies have been successful in a...

Medical College receives $11 million grant to study high blood pressure

The grant was provided by the to evaluate the impact that genes within specific regions of chromosome 13 have on salt...

Merge Healthcare appoints new CEO, reports $215 million Q2 loss

Kenneth Rardin has assumed the role of president and CEO of the financially troubled company, replacing interim CEO Michael Dunham, chairman of the board of dire...

Green unveils $25 million stem cell plan

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Healthcare software addresses "90 million" misclassified Americans

Then imagine employers basing their health plan buying decisions on the often inaccurate information contained in that tool. Employers don't have to imagine such a scenario because they have been living it, unbeknown to them, for yea...

Oshkosh Truck spends $4.8 million on disaster-resistant network

The purchase will outfit with a portfolio of sophisticated networking solutions, including a single converged "self-healing" network to be phased...

Orbitec will use $25 million Air Force contract to make small launch vehicle

The has awarded $3.9 million to <a hr...

Chippewa Valley to get $46 million in defense spending

Secured by Democratic , the allocations still need approval from the U.S. Senate and President B...

UW System says goodbye to Lawson after 5 years, $26 million

payroll and benefit softwar...

Brady Corp. raises $137 million in public offering

Brady, a global manufacturer of identification solutions, including signs and labels, issued 4 million shares of Class A common stock at $36 per share. The company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to...

aOva Technologies raises $3 million

aOva recently announced the closing of its latest financing round, which began on March 17 and closed one week ahead of schedule. The funding, collected from various angel investors, will be used by the company to further its...

WiSys to distribute $1 million in research funds

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Feds provide $1.5 million for new nanotechnology center

The grant will cover part of the cost of construction for the $5.5 million nanotechnology i...

Platypus gets $1.6 million grant for liquid crystal tech

Platypus Technologies, LLC, will receive a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant of $1.65 million from the National Institute for Allergy & Infectious Diseases. The grant w...

Is your brand worth billions?

Is your brand valuation worth a billion dollars today? Maybe yes or maybe no, but it surely is worth something pretty big. At the end of the day, all the work you have put in pushing your name identity and your range of products and services in your marketplace adds up in an abstract space of the consumer's mind, where it acquires some great value. This equity can be measured as a real, soft asse...