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DGGE Analysis for Non-Invasive Studies of Primate Diet

Jodi A. Irwin, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, NorthwesternUniversity Medical School, 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Il 60611-3008j-irwin@nwu.edu; Cristin Orrego, Conservation Genetics Laboratory,Department of Biology, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco State University,San Francisco, CA 94132 cob@sfsu.edu Introduction <br...

Venture Investors to open Michigan office

The Madison venture capital firm, which recently moved into a larger space in the MGE Innovation Center in <a href="http:/...

Midwest hotter for healthcare investments

The report said the Midwest experienced a 25 percent increase in 2006 for health care-related investments....

Kanavas outlines new Invest Wisconsin agenda

The legislative package, which also includes a NanoSTEM initiative, nanotechnology tax credits, and other proposals to stimu...

State's investment in early-stage businesses is changing perceptions

Attorney Joe Hildebrandt has been a part of many deals connecting promising young Wisconsin companies with investors, some close at home and others in the financial centers of the nations East and West coasts. Over the years, Hildebrandt told a legislative committee last week, he's battled the notion that Wisconsin is a "flyover state" that nei...

Schwartz leaves Merge board; will launch healthcare technology investment fund

Schwartz will continue providing business development assistance to the company beyond his previously...

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,...

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...

Regulations still stymie business investment in high-growth companies

"Today it is easier to legally gamble your life savings away than it is to invest in emerging, growth Wisconsin comp...

Wisconsin Needs More Investment Capital

MADISON Practical ideas for spurring capital investment are included in economic development plans released this week by Gov. Jim Doyle and state Senate Republicans, said Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council. The Grow Wisconsin plan unveiled by the Governor and the package released by the Senate Republicans show there is bipartisan agreement on the need to create new...

Wisconsin Insurance Company Invests in DotCom Company

Delta Dental Plan of Wisconsin and Delta Dental Plan of New Jersey and announced an investment to complement the previous investments made by Aetna, Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., Delta Dental Plan of Michigan, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, MetLife and Dental Benefit Providers (the dental subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group). These companies have joined together in a coope...

Preparative Nondenaturing Gel Electrophoresis Used in the Purification of an Esterase Involved in Insecticide Resistance, Rev C

Dr Albert J Ketterman and SHP Parakrama Karunaratne, Dept. of MedicalParasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St,London WC1E 7HT UK Introduction In attempts to control Culex quinquefasciatus as a worldwide vector of diseases such and filariasis and encephalitis, mosquito field populati...

Genomic DNA Isolation From 510 mg Marine Invertebrate Tissue

Catalog #732-6340 Expected yield range: 210 g DNA 1. Dissect tissue sample quickly and freeze in liquid nitrogen. Store at -70 to -80C. Fresh tissue may also be used. Work very quickly and k...

Th1 and Th2 Balance, Regulation, and Involvement in Disease

Cytokines are the hormonal messengers responsible for most of the biological effects in the immune system, such as cell-mediated immunity and allergic type responses. T lymphocytes are a major source of cytokines. These cells bear antigen-specific receptors on their cell surface to allow recognition of foreign pathogens. There are two main subsets of T lymphocytes, distinguished by th...

A Screen of shRNAs Targeting Tumor Suppressor Genes to Identify Factors Involved in Paclitaxel Sensitivity

Diana Ji, Stacy L. Deeds, and Edward J. Weinstein RNA interference methodologies have been utilized in small to large scale screening projects. The technology has allowed researchers to perform gene-silencing experiments in timeframes and target cells previously not possible. While siRNA screens have become fairly common, large scale screening wi...

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...

Investor warns of angel-venture funding gap

Payne, an entrepreneur-in-residence for the and a prominent angel investor, will be in Madison to address the June...

Brazilian bio-industry should impress American investors

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Biomedical engineering conference invites manufacturers

The University of Wisconsin-Madison already puts on an annual design event at the end of each spring semester, but this year...

Investors raise $25 million for biodiesel plant

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

National angel investment grew 11 percent in `06

The angel investor market is considered the spawning ground for the next wave of high-growth investments, and judging by the continued growth in the national angel market, a diversified range of opportunities await later-stage institutional investors. In its , the <a href="http://www.unh....

Bio-energy and cleantech grab attention of investors

- In 2000, so-called cleantech investments made up only one percent of the venture capital market in the United States. By late 2006, that slice of the venture capital pie had grown to 14 percent. The message is clear: The markets are warming to technologies that produce alternative fuels, keep the air and water clean, and help conserve energy.<...

Yasnoff: Wisconsin should invest in health record bank

Yasnoff, founder of the eHealth Trust Initiative, continues to advocate that states or regions create a central repository, or bank, for all ele...

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...

CellCura could start an invasion of stem cell firms

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Early-stage quality brings investment, Meier says

The most recent sample of evidence was produced in the <a href="http://www.pw...

Web-centric entrepreneurs find models that attract investment

- Five years removed from the dotcom bubble, when adolescent business models were scorching investors and questioning the value of the online world, new business models that investors find attractive are emerging. The models are both progressive in their cutting-edge approach to business and traditional in their adherence to financial rea...

Early-stage executives hear from investors

In evaluating MatriLab, a Milwaukee-based biotech with scientific ties to the , they counseled technology start ups t...

9 tips for making 90 seconds count in an investment pitch

You have 90 seconds to explain, starting now. That's the premise of the Elevator Pitch Olympics, a yearly event at the Wisconsin Early-Stage Sympo...

InvivoSciences receives NIH grant for heart technology

To improve its technology, , a start-up biotechnology firm...

Inventions could fall prey to Monday morning quarterbacking

soon will decide whether to change the current long-standing patentability standard for obviousness. To be patentable, an invention must not be "obvious" in light of what was publicly known at the moment it was created by the inventor, and any change in the legal test for obviousness would p...

UW-Madison MBA program ranked among best for investment return

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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...

Investor links East Coast funds to Midwest tech

, a sector fund of the Peak Ridge Capital Group, wants to bridge the gap between the Midwest and the East Coast venture communities, and his passion for investing in innovative Midwestern technology companies is one of th...

PDS survives with technological reinvention

What else could explain the six - and still counting - reiterations of his company, anniversary with a very important streak intact - 19 consecutive years of revenue g...

Angel investors commit $12.7B in first half of `06

The center, which has been conducting r...

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...

Invitrogen boosts drug development capability

The new capability will be made possible by 's recent acquisition of Sentigen Holding Corp., which will be integrated with Inv...

Wisconsin start up Primorigen Biosciences corrals out-of-state investment

Primorigen, a developer of protein t...

Prodesse joins forces with Invitrogen

As part of a new license agreement, Prodesse will add to its offerings the first diagnostic assays with light upon extension (LUX) techn...