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TomoTherapy, a medical systems manufacturer spun out of research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has raised $223 million in an initial public offering that concluded on May 9. The Madison-based company will use the proceeds to ramp up its global sales and marketing initiatives and...

The Wisconsin delegation hit the ground running at BIO 2007, an international conference for the biotechnology industry. Among the significant news generated at BIO was the announcement by Mark Underwood, president of Quincy Biosciences, that the company has developed a preclinical compound for the...

The Supreme Court decision in KSR International vs. Teleflex not only clarified the “obviousness” standard for patents, it sent a message about adhering to Supreme Court precedents, writes John Scheller, an attorney with Michael Best & Friedrich. In this guest column for WTN, Scheller says...

Logistics Health, a La Crosse provider of healthcare services to government and commercial organizations, has established Health & Productivity Management Optimization, a Web-based tool to help government and commercial employers manage compliance programs....

For those who would like alternatives to the 800-pound gorillas in the search-engine room, take heart. As Buzz Networks columnist Paul Gibler explains, there are endless alternatives to Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and AOL, and they have the capacity to boost your search engine...

Mason Wells is spinning off its venture capital business, but the move hardly spells doom for Wisconsin's attempts to generate more venture capital. Mason Wells Venture Funds will be spun into Broadwell Ventures, which will be managed by Dan Broderick and focus on biotechnology, pharmaceutical,...

Like the Olympic games, BIO 2007 in Boston truly is an international event, as about 25 percent of the attendees are from overseas, notes columnist Michael Rosen. In this edition of Yer Biotech Blues, Rosen points to participation from Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Japan, Korea,...