Stem cells made in Madison are flying high on the International Space Station. Cellular Dynamics International says its iCell cardiomyocytes are part of scientific tests being conducted in NASA’s new Bioculture System. They were launched into space aboard SpaceX’s commercial resupply mission on Dec. 15. “We are...
THE DIGITAL ECONOMY | STUDY BY BROOKINGS INSTITUTION It’s not just Madisonians who are coming to see the area as a burgeoning techno-hub. A study by the Brookings Institution shows the economy of the Madison metropolitan area is more technology-forward than all but nine other metro regions...
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison say they have teased apart, for the first time, the early cascade of events that may eventually cause stenosis, a severe narrowing of the aortic valve that reduces blood flow to body tissues and weakens the heart. The only...
Exact Sciences Corp. — the Madison company whose Cologuard DNA stool test screens for colorectal cancer — is building more than just a big laboratory building at its new campus just off Schroeder Road on the West Side. Exact is submitting plans to the city to...
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) - WITH Research and Development facilities at University Research Park, today announced that it filed a regulatory submission to begin a Phase 1/2 study of ARO-HBV, which is being developed as a potentially curative therapy for patients with chronic hepatitis...
MADISON, Wis. - Madison's Truax Field is the preferred choice to house the next-generation F-35 fighter jet, the U.S. Air Force made official in an announcement Thursday. The decision means the U.S. Air Force intends to replace the F-16 fighter jets currently flown at the base...
Researchers at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin–Madison have confirmed that microscopic fossils discovered in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock in Western Australia are the oldest fossils ever found and indeed the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth. An epoxy mount containing a...
Madworks and gener8tor’s gBETA program in Madison both wrapped up their fall sessions recently. That means a total of 10 local startups have gone through the paces and come out with a new understanding of how to make a mark in today’s business world. At Madworks,...
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are investigating cross-talk between the brain and lungs of people with asthma in a four-year, $2.5 million study to understand how psychological stress can make asthma symptoms worse. Through a clinical study called AsthMatic Inflammation and Neurocircuitry Activation, or MINA,...
Coenzyme Q (CoQ) is a vital cog in the body’s energy-producing machinery, a kind of chemical gateway in the conversion of food into cellular fuel. But six decades removed from its discovery, scientists still can’t describe exactly how and when it is made. Dave Pagliarini, director...
Madison-area business leaders are seeing an influx of millennial talent as a result of the region’s growing tech ecosystem. “It’s a very exciting time,” says Jeff Naughton, site director for Google Madison. He spoke at a “State of the Sector” event put on yesterday by the...
As a child, Rachel Rose wore clothes emblazoned with C-3PO and drifted off to sleep on Star Wars sheets. And while the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and the Jedi knights may have filled her dreams, she never imagined she’d grow up to help...