Today the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce announced the five finalists competing in the 10th annual Pressure Chamber startup initiative which returns to the Majestic Theatre on Aug. 22 during Forward Fest....
Exact Sciences plans to seek approval soon of an updated Cologuard stool-based colon cancer screening test and launch a blood test to detect cancer that can linger after surgery....
Preterm birth remains a stubborn and poorly understood medical challenge, but new imaging techniques developed at the Morgridge Institute for Research are helping scientists analyze the key biomechanical features that contribute....
In a memo delivered last week to all members of the state Legislature, the board members are urging action by this fall on the $347 million project. They wrote the effort is “vital to the entire state, especially its business and research communities, for many...
Ayla Annac, president and CEO of InvivoSciences highlights a “severe unmet need” for drugs to effectively treat patients for a specific form of heart failure using precision medicine....
Investments in young, Wisconsin-based companies by angel and venture capitalists and other equity investors totaled $640.2 million in 2022, far from the previous year’s total of $868.8 million but still the second-highest investment total on the books....
Five years ago, Bucky the Badger took on a multitude of forms and found himself spread across the streets of Madison for the public art project Bucky on Parade. This year, Destination Madison rejuvenated the program for a limited time on its five-year anniversary, introducing...
The Wisconsin program that helped Milwaukee's Dana Guthrie and other first-time venture capital fund managers in the state get their start received another $25 million under the 2023-'25 budget Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed Wednesday, doubling the state's total investment in the fund....
In a June 30 article in the journal Science, the IceCube Collaboration presents this new evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from the Milky Way. The findings indicate that the Milky Way produces far fewer neutrinos than the average distant galaxies....
Shear band formation is not typically a good sign in a material — the bands often appear before a material fractures or fails. But materials science and engineering researchers at the UW–Madison have found that shear bands aren’t always a negative; under the right conditions,...