7.18.12 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Mark Johnson

There are music camps and soccer camps and computer camps. Why not a stem cell camp?

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5.24.12 | Nature | Daniel Cressey
 
Stem cells have assumed near-mythical status in the popular imagination as a possible cure for every disease under the sun. But while public attention has focused on their potential in regenerative medicine, stem cells have quietly gained a foothold in drug development — a move that may hail a huge but unheralded shake-up of the biological sciences.

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5.8.12 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Kathleen Gallagher

The Morgridge Institute for Research and the U.S. Department of Energy have reached a multimillion-dollar agreement to help open a medical isotope plant in Janesville - a development that Morgridge's director says could spark a manufacturing cluster that could ultimately bring as many as 1,000 jobs to economically beleaguered Rock County.

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3.20.12 | MIT News Office | Larry Hardesty

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In December, MIT Media Lab researchers caused a stir by releasing a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a plastic bottle. But the experimental setup that enabled that video was designed for a much different application: a camera that can see around corners.

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3.13.12 | HPC Wire

Cycle Computing announced today that Victor Ruotti, computational biologist, Morgridge Institute for Research, won the 2011 CycleCloud BigScience Challenge . Ruotti will be awarded $10,000 of computation time, the equivalent of eight hours on a 30,000-core cluster. The contest was open to all applicants working on behalf of non-profit organizations to further humanity and state of the art research using utility supercomputing.

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