About seven years ago, researchers at the US DNA sequencing company Illumina started to notice something odd. A new blood test it ran on 125,000 expectant mothers looking for genetic abnormalities such as Down’s syndrome in their foetuses returned some extremely unexpected signals in 10 cases. Chillingly,...
Bill Kohl, chief operating officer for JangoBio, says this marks a step forward in the company's journey to bring its anti-aging therapy to market, starting with non-agricultural animals. "Things look promising," Kohl told WisBusiness.com. "We're working on refining the application, increasing and improving efficacy, and of...
StartingBlock, an ambitious new center for startups and entrepreneurship on Madison’s east side, has been taking some stock of its progress since its opening last summer. According to its leaders, and some current and former tenants: So far, so good. “It’s surprisingly close to where we’d expected...
An experimental flu vaccine developed by a Madison company reduced flu virus levels and symptoms in people exposed to a mismatched strain, according to study results released Tuesday. The study by FluGen Inc., founded by UW-Madison scientists Yoshi Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann, simulated the mismatch that...
Moving away from fossil fuels could create thousands of jobs, improve public health, and increase overall economic activity by nearly $14 billion in Wisconsin, according to a new study. Despite providing the frac sand used to extract oil and natural gas, Wisconsin has no significant fossil...
UW Health has selected Thomas “Rock” Mackie to be the inaugural leader of the health system’s innovation initiative, which it is pursuing in partnership with the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Mackie, who was also named chief innovation officer at UW Health, is a...
Invenra and WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) today announced they have entered into a collaboration to discover and develop a bispecific antibody therapeutic for the treatment of neuroblastoma, a cancer that is the third most common childhood cancer, after leukemia and brain tumors. The collaboration will...
In short: Madison, Wisconsin is one of many non-traditional tech hubs that deserves attention from companies who are looking to establish new offices. Software company Zendesk established an outpost there a few years ago, after deciding to prioritize its employee’s existing connections and ties to...
Exact Sciences Corp. says it is working on separate diagnostic tests to detect 15 of the deadliest types of cancer, and its ultimate, eventual goal is to create, with its partners at Mayo Clinic, a single, universal blood test for cancer. CEO Kevin Conroy said the...
The cost of doing business is always on the mind of startup executives. Salaries, rent, and other expenses like software licenses can often make or break a company. Much of the math comes down to how much money you can raise for your business, and startups...
UW-Madison researchers have developed a new method for creating hybrid yeast strains for use in commercial fermentation and brewing. An info sheet from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation shows interspecies yeast hybrids are needed to produce certain fermented beverages. For example, the globally popular lager beer...
Twenty years ago, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Monona Terrace Convention Center became permanently etched into our skyline — its existence now as iconic to Madison as Bucky and the state Capitol. A few years later, architect Cesar Pelli’s Overture Center for the Arts transformed the...