By Joe Tarr, Isthmus Dr. Richard Boland has been fighting a long battle against a stealthy foe — colon cancer. If caught early, the disease is one of the easiest cancers to treat and has one of the highest survival rates. But, Boland laments, most people who...
Illumina, Inc. has increased its ability to mass-produce specialty reagents and kits for life science research now that expansion of its Madison operations has been completed....
Illumina, a San Diego-based company that moved into the Madison market in 2012, unveiled Thursday an $8 million, 13,000-square-foot addition to its University Research Park facility on the West Side. The new space, which includes a fermentation lab with tanks ranging in size from 20 liters...
A new breath-based test that can detect infection within two hours of its onset is well on its way to commercialization and public launch, thanks to continued innovation at Madison-based Isomark LLC....
Madworks Coworking’s accelerator program on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, recently launched its summer 2015 session with seven startups....
On Wednesday, Madison-based BluDiagnostics was named the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Competition’s overall winner and top life sciences company, beating 12 other finalists....
Elizabeth Hlavacka, an 8th grader at Aquinas Middle School in La Crosse, is the grand prize winner in Wisconsin YES!, a statewide youth business plan contest for students in middle and high school....
Finalists representing diverse tech-based sectors in Wisconsin’s startup economy will present live to judges in the Governor’s Business Plan Contest during the 13th annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Madison....
Currently, more than 3,800 people are employed by the 126 businesses and organizations in the University Research Park....
The University of Wisconsin-Madison joined the growing hackathon trend this past April with its first large-scale hackathon event--dubbed MadHacks--organized and run by students in the Department of Computer Sciences and hosted by University Research Park....
A survey just completed by the Wisconsin Alumni Association shows a substantial level of business startups among graduates of the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
Exact Sciences announced its first quarter business and financial results, reporting that 11,000 Cologuard™ tests were completed and that the number of ordering physicians more than doubled, increasing from 4,100 at the end of 2014 to 8,300 in the first quarter of 2015....