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The New MagNA Pure Compact System

The smart solution for quick and fully automatedlow-throughput nucleic acid purification! The fast, flexible and reliable isolation of pure nucleicacids from various sample materials is crucial for sensitivemolecular analysis (e.g....

Douglas Stewart reaches distribution pact with digital video firm

Financial terms of the deal were...

Proposed telecom bill would have Katrina impact

I think that is great. Pass HB 1500 in Illinois. Have a statewide franchise. But in excha...

GE Healthcare leads compact ultrasound market

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Shades of gray: Business impacts of an aging workforce

Many of these press accounts would lead one to believe that...

Impact of e-medical records will be felt at home

- It seems like we do e-everything these days. We make phone calls over the Internet. We shop, listen to the radio, buy music, even make friends, all online. We have every piece of information about ourselves in one e-form or another. Yet our medical records - arguably the most important information we have - are still done with pen and paper,...

Java's undeniable impact on the Web

Nearly a dozen years ago, Eric Schmidt, then the CTO of Sun Microsystems, gave the DEMO audience a preview of a new development language called Java. A thoroughly modern development platform for the still relatively new World Wide Web and beyond, Java promised to ease programming headaches, the biggest of which was porting applications from one hardware platform to...

Impact of research park firms pegged at $680M

Many of the 114 companies housed in the , located three miles...

The flattening world and its impact on U.S. biotech

article "It's a Flat World, After All" (Friedman is author of the book "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century"), he contrasts a personal trip in 2004 to India to Columbus's 1492 trip to the New Wor...

WARF signs licensing pact with BD Biosciences

As part of the agreement, BD Biosciences, a division of the medical supply firm <a href="http:/...

Doyle signs bill that impacts electronic medical records

Senate Bill 650 creates an exception to current law pertaining to the confidentiality of treatment records, allowing physicians easier access to mental health records wh...

GE introduces compact ultrasound system for women

, a $15 billion unit of General Electric Co., has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for the Vol...

RFID starting to make real impact on business

With today's issue, Wisconsin Technology Network launches a special section devoted to radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. While the technology is not new, it is only now beginning to make a real impact on business. It is from that perspective that we present this series of articles on RFID, articles written by WTN writers and contributed by Wisconsin experts in business and academi...

Transition continues to impact Third Wave financials

Third Wave reported total revenue of $5.8 million and a net loss of $5.5 million, or 13 cents per diluted share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2005, compared to total revenue of $12.6 mil...

Genzyme acquistion of Bone Care approved, significant impact forecast

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The impact of ACT 255 on the future of high-tech investment in Wisconsin

MADISON The future of venture capital and investment in Wisconsin was discussed at an economic development breakfast panel discussion presented last Wednesday by the UW-Madison Small Business Development Center at the MG&E Innovation Center. A panel consisting of investment specialists, from both the public and private...

UW symposium to explore impact of IT on improving quality, safety and cost of healthcare

MADISON Advances in the development of healthcare information systems are helping to define 21st century electronic healthcare. Although the technology exists, organizations often struggle with the transition from error prone paper-based systems to a more efficient and safer digital healthcare network. A flagship one-day symposium, Leveraging Information Technology to Improve Patient S...

APIs labor resource management impacts 2,500 hospital employees

Hartford, Wis. -- in Winchester, Mass. plans to implement the majority of APIs suite of labor resource management solutions throughout the entire community hospital. The solution will include Payrollmation time and attendance, A...

The cultural impact of best practice and world class theories

When senior management use phrases like best practice or world class, Ive seen employees cringe! While this may be no more than an observation of a specific management team, Ive seen the same reaction in every organization where those topics come up. Unless you want to dismiss your entire staff as slackers, it makes sense to pay attention to this adverse reaction. Because each business is unique,...

The Industry Impact of Two Big Pharmas Mating

CHICAGO Early this year, the ongoing saga of the consolidating pharmaceutical industry began. For those of you who havent been following the news over the last two weeks, were talking about the hostile bid by French pharmaceutical giant to take over French-German pharmaceutical giant <a href="http://www.aventis....

Symposium To Explore Information Technology's Impact on Improving Quality, Cost Effectiveness of Healthcare

MILWAUKEE-Advances in information technology are outstripping the development of new drugs as science's most significant contribution to treating and preventing disease. Today, information networks are making it possible to detect outbreaks of infectious diseases earlier, and advances in genetic profiling are enabling doctors to identify patients at risk for life-threatening diseases. A flagship...

The Impact of Biotech Globalization in the Midwest

CHICAGO For those of you who think biotechnology is just some passing fad (particularly in the Midwest), get ready because biotech is big business and its here to stay. More than that, its a global business. Perhaps the group that best tracks the growth of biotech around the globe is the audit firm Ernst &...