Category Archives: Biotech

New Website Helps Brain Functions

Biotech company Quincy Bioscience has launched a free website called Prevagen Games to hone brain skills, the company announced this week. “At Quincy Bioscience, we want to support every aspect…

Madison Vaccines Completes Series A

Madison Vaccines Incorporated (MVI) announced this week it raised $8 million in a Series A financing round led by Venture Investors, LLC. The Madison-based biopharmaceutical company seeks to advance research and clinical testing…

UW Team Improves Stem Cell Process

The University of Wisconsin announced this week that a team of engineers has created a more efficient process for creating synthetic neural stem cells for use in central nervous system research….

CDI to Supply Cells for Nutritional Research

Cellular Dynamics International announced recently that it will supply the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences SA (NIHS) with its iCell and MyCell lines for nutritional research. “The ongoing work and this long-term…

Stemina Earns $10M EPA Contract

Stemina Biomarker Discovery announced this week it received a five-year contract worth $10,637,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in conjunction with the federal agency’s ToxCast initiative. According to…

CDI to Work With Muscular Dystrophy Org

Cellular Dynamics International announced today it signed an agreement with the Jain Foundation to create five induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines from patients with muscular dystrophies for the eventual purpose of drug…

UW Researchers Find Stem Cell Production Event

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health announced this week that they discovered an event that controls the production of blood stem cells. According to a release,…

CDI Receives Patent for Stem Cell Reprogramming

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Monday issued Cellular Dynamics International a patent that relates to the method by which adult tissue cells are reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem (iPS)…

Kind Provides Congressional Update at BioForward

Congress needs to invest in our intellectual infrastructure. That was what U.S. Representative Ron Kind told the audience at the BioForward monthly meeting–a Forward Festival event–Tuesday at the MGE Innovation…

Stem Cells Used to Target Defective Genes

Genetic defects may be repaired through a technique created by researchers from the Morgridge Institute for Research and Northwestern University, the organizations announced this week. In an article published in the Proceedings of the…