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Detection of Mutant K-ras in a Kindred With Hereditary Pancreatic Cancer by DGGE

David A. Crispin,* Ru Chen,* Michael B. Kimmey,** Teresa A. Brentnall** * Departments of Pathology and **Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Introduction Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the U.S....

Many still distrust Web sites is yours credible enough?

Many Internet surfers often believe they know a good Web site when they see one. Their intuition is based on a number of surface-level factors. For example, surfers are more likely to trust a site when it a...

Web-based reporting credited with state's top healthcare ranking

Web-based reporting credited with state's top healthcare ranking The AHRQ's data sho...

Doyle announces technology tax credits for Berbee

Berbee, founded in 1993, plans to invest in a new 43,250-square-foot office building and a 51,500-sq...

UW-Madison dean predicts bio-economy will fuel Wisconsin

University of Wisco...

More enterprise software predictions for 2007

, a sadly overlooked market segment amid the noise of the Web 2.0 crowd, I think these prescient pr...

Will there be more money for investment credits?

, the tax-credit program designed to encourage more investment in technology-based companies, might go unheeded due to the state's fiscal situation and philosophical disagreements about the act's purpose, ac...

Wisconsin's high-growth economy: '07 predictions

With luck, 2007 should be even better, but the investment climate must remain warm and state policymakers need to turn a cold shoulder to i...

Reader predictions would make 2007 quite a year

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Bold prediction: Web 2.0 goes away in 2007

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TrafficCast secures $1 million line of credit

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Commerce qualifies seven for investor tax credits

The programs, which are designed to encourage investment in technology and biotechnology companies, offer Wisconsin income tax credits to angel investors...

Online scam targets credit union members

According to a notice from , the trade association for more than 270 credit unions...

NovaScan decides against tax credits

The company instead has raised a total of $385,000 from a combination of fiv...

Winners of past business plan contests secure funding, credibility

Several emerging technology companies have earned much-needed start-up momentum, and attracted the attention of investors, after submitting winning business plans to a competition that has attracted hundreds of ideas. The Governor's Busine...

Burke would like to double Act 255 angel tax credits

State commerce secretary Mary Burke said this week that she would like Wisconsin to double the amount of tax credits available to angel investors under the Act 255 program. In an interview, Burke said funding increases would be contingent on the state's fiscal health, but she would like to double the tax credits from the $3 million allocated in the current biennial budget. Under Act 255,...

Credit unions face identity management issues

According to the Federal Trade Commission, 27 million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years 10 million last year. While not all stolen identities may ever be used, just the fact that they co...

More firms outside Madison eligible for Act 255 tax credits

Four more firms have qualified for investor tax credits under Wisconsin's Act 255. That includes several firms outside the Madison area, where most eligible companies so far have come from. Wisconsin gives the tax credits to investors on money put into eligible companies. , in Eau Claire, makes digital signs for office lobbies and s...

ABC Computers receives $250,000 tax credit for expansion

ABC Computers is Wisconsin's largest provider of sourced-based accounting systems. It wi...

Five technology companies qualify for investor tax credits

"By encouraging investors through tax credits to make these crucial investments, we are helping to turn these great ideas into viable, job-creating businesses," Gov. Jim Doyle said. The Angel...

Radical changes predicted for IT groups

By 2011, three-quarters of IT businesses will have found their key roles transformed. Ten percent will have closed their doors, and another ten percent will find themselves relegated to commodity status. The predictions were made this week at the <a href="http://w...

Dane County company gets $40,000 in technology tax credits

. specializes in custom machining, welding, and fabrication of parts for the medical d...

BioDiagnostics is first seed-testing lab to gain new accreditation

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NovaScan qualifies for investor tax credits

"These tax credits are an additional incentive for investors and will help us attract qualified angels to fund the next phase of development and clinical testing of our technology," said...

Local meteorology company accurately predicts Hurricane Dennis landfall

On Friday, July 8, Weather Central's Super MicroCast...

10 more firms qualify for investor tax credits

The state Department of Commerce has qualified 10 more businesses for investor tax credits under Commerce can give out up to $3.5 million to venture capitalists and $3 million to angels per year for at least 10 years. It's u...

Appleton engineering firm gets $250,000 in tax credits to build facility

According to Governor Jim Doyle's office, the $2.4 million project will create 28 jobs in the area. The credits are part of Wisconsin's <a href="http://www.commerce.state.wi.us/cd/CD-bed-tz...

Milwaukee firm among first to use Act 255 tax credits in investor pitch

Neurognostics oversubscribed on its $1 million angel finance round by about 15 percent,...

Attempt to exclude stem cell companies from tax credit bill hurts Wisconsin

That's what happened last week when the Assembly approved a bill to grant rese...

Bill would deny tax credits to firms creating stem-cell cultures

The Wisconsin Assembly voted late Tuesday night to amend a bill granting tax credits so that any corporation doing research on newly created human embryonic stem cells would be denied. Mirroring federal funding restrictions, the amended bill excludes firms that do any research involving the destruction of human embryos perhaps most significantly to extract stem cells from them after Au...

Neurognostics pushes early prediction of brain disease

"MRI is the most popular and useful mapping technique in the world ... in research," said Steve Rao, founder and chief science...

Five more companies eligible for angel tax credits

Wisconsin is encouraging angel investment in five more tech companies by offering tax credits, bringing the Governor Jim Doyle on Monday added three biotechs, one health IT company and an audio technology company. The state's <a href="http://www.commerce.wi.g...

Five more companies eligible for Act 255 investor tax credits

Potential investors in five more Wisconsin companies qualify for tax credits under One of the act's provisions allows angel and venture investors to claim tax credits after financing technology firms from <a href=...

Interview: State CIO predicts small businesses and SOA will shape Wisconsin

Miszewski, the state's chief information officer and the head of the <a target="blank" href="http://www.doa.state.wi....

Chippewa County manufacturers to receive tax credits

Under the program, tax credits are awarded to businesses in eight zones statewide that are commercializing technology or using advanced manufacturing techniques to retain or create jobs in Wisconsin. <a targe...

Predictive medicine: Genes indicate diseases before symptoms do

Today, doctors still follow the same basic paradigm for healthcare, said William Clarke, executive...

$500,000 in technology tax credits go to Placon and Promega

Source: www.promega.com Placon Corporation, a plastic packaging designer and manufacturer, will use the tax relief to create 19 new jobs, and...

Standard Imaging and Tushaus receive DOC Tech Zone credits

MADISON Two technology companies have received a total of $195,500 in tax credits from the Department of Commerce. Gov. Jim Doyle announced last Friday that ,...

Investment tax credit bill is a good start, but Wisconsin must confront other barriers to capital formation

MADISON Now that Gov. Jim Doyle has signed a bill to promote investment in Wisconsins small start-up businesses, will the states technology sector blossom like a spring flower? Based on this law alone, dont count on it. The bills creation of tax credits for angel and early-stage investments as well as grants and loans for technology start-ups is welcome news, but its only one step towar...

Using Demographic Predictions, UW Prof Expounds Upon Trends in Tech

Madison, Wis. -- Paul Voss looks at the future in terms of social, not technological, change, but his demographic predictions could reveal upcoming trends in the technology needed by certain segments of the population. The professor of rural sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison addressed the Madison chapter of the World Future Society Thursday in a presentation titled Ameri...