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About two million people in Wisconsin and three other Midwestern states could have better access to specialty health care. That's if a merger between Marshfield Clinic Health System and Essentia Health moves forward. Marshfield Clinic operates hospitals and clinics...

Two Madison-based companies have released new investment strategies aimed at bringing “complete political transparency” to S&P 500 index funds. Goods Unite Us and Quiver Quantitative yesterday announced the launch of the “Republican Large-Cap Core Strategy” and...

GenoPalate, Inc., a Milwaukee-based nutritional genomics company, has closed on $5.6 million in investments in the initial phase of its current $10.6 million round of equity financing. The funds will be used to grow and enhance GenoPalate's product offerings to...

BioForward Wisconsin, the collective voice of Wisconsin’s robust and comprehensive biohealth cluster representing more than 220 member organizations, shared results of the Wisconsin Biohealth: Industry Landscape and Economic Impact Report which highlights the...

Green Bay venture capital firm TitletownTech's latest investment is in Chicago-area biosensor company Stemloop Inc., which aims to solve the problem of unsafe drinking water. The financing from TitletownTech, a partnership between the Green Bay Packers and Microsoft,...

Wisconsin delivered all the elements Ghana-based Niche Cocoa was seeking in its first North American manufacturing site. “Taking into account proximity to customers, logistics, high-quality human capital and a business-friendly environment, Wisconsin was a great...

Cellular Logistics has been awarded a $337,000 SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health to further evaluate the functional immune and angiogenic (blood vessel growth) responses of the company’s Cardiac Fibroblast Matrix product, CFX™ Solus, for the...

Exact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today announced the company will present new data supporting the positive impact of Cologuard® as a colorectal cancer screening tool during the American College of...

Tucked just out of plain sight of motorists traveling along the I-94 corridor in Kenosha County, there’s a three-story, 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Pleasant Prairie that marks the next stage of growth for a family-owned pharmaceutical company that...

Somerville, Massachusetts-based Formlabs, a 3D printing technology developer and manufacturer, opened a new regional headquarters in Milwaukee’s Third Ward last month.  The Milwaukee office, located at 220 E. Buffalo St., will add more than 100 jobs over the next...

After 25 years as a leader in the Human Resources industry, Shawn Guylas began to reflect on what people needed to be successful. His experience led him to determine that whether people are inside or outside of the workplace, everyone needs the same things to thrive....

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Jon Horne, managing director of the Idea Fund of La Crosse. After initially launching in June 2017, the Idea Fund invested in 11 companies across the state over its first four years. Horne explains initial...

Wisconsin added 14,400 private sector jobs in September, even as the state’s labor force participation rate dropped by 0.3 percentage points for the second straight month. The seasonally-adjusted data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics also showed Wisconsin’s...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded 15 non-profits over $600 million in Farm and Food Workers Relief Program grants to assist farm workers, meatpackers, and grocery workers nationwide with direct COVID-19 related relief payments. Farm workers,...

While women make up about half the population, they only represent about a quarter of board seats for Wisconsin's top-50 public corporations, according to a new research report from Milwaukee Women inc. The report, which was released earlier this month, shows that...

In the latest episode of “Talking Trade,” Mark Rhoda-Reis of DATCP discusses another potentially record-setting year for Wisconsin ag exports. Rhoda-Reis, the director of the agency’s International Agribusiness Center, said the state set a new record with $3.94...

With topics ranging from using data to advance racial equity to mitigating bias in the hiring process, Milwaukee's first Equity in Tech Summit highlighted tactics for increasing diversity in the city's growing technology sector. The event, held Tuesday at Saint Kate -...

he board of trustees for Racine-based Gateway Technical College has named Ritu Raju as its new president. Raju has 18 years of experience in higher education, most recently as vice president for academic affairs at Tarrant County College’s northeast campus in Hurst,...

A supply chain specialist warns the United States will be “in a world of hurt” if semiconductor production coming out of Taiwan is disrupted. Rosemary Coates, founder and executive director of the Reshoring Institute, discussed logistics trends yesterday during a...