http://www.news.wisc.edu/ News stories from the University of Wisconsin-Madison en-us Invitrogen Corp. and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation announced today (May 8) that they have signed a license for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) patents for the development of research tools. 2008-05-08 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15209 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15209 The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and FluGen have signed license agreements for a technology that has the potential to significantly improve the way influenza vaccines are manufactured. 2008-05-08 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15210 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15210 Timothy Kamp, a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has been awarded the inaugural Schuster Prize for excellence in advancing cardiovascular medicine at the school. 2008-05-08 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15211 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15211 After selling the first company he founded for more than $1 million, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering alum Chad Sorenson wasn't sure what to do next. Sandra Knisely perspective@engr.wisc.edu 2008-05-08 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15212 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15212 Viruses are masters of deception, duping their host's cells into helping them grow and spread. A new study has found that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can mimic a common regulatory protein to hijack normal cell growth machinery, disrupting a cell's primary anti-cancer mechanism. Jill Sakai jasakai@wisc.edu 2008-05-08 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15213 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15213 As vice president and chief financial officer of Plexus, a global electronics manufacturing corporation in Neenah, Wis., Ginger Jones was skeptical. She wasn't sure college students could come up with sound, practical advice her business could use. Bill Graf wlgraf@wisc.edu 2008-05-08 http://www.wisconsinidea.wisc.edu/profiles/Seward/ http://www.wisconsinidea.wisc.edu/profiles/Seward/ As France's parliament considers a landmark bill that would outlaw media images glamorizing the extremely thin, psychology researchers are reporting some of the most definitive findings yet on how these images affect women. Madeline Fisher mmfisher@wisc.edu 2008-05-08 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15215 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15215 2008-05-08 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15216 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15216 2008-05-09 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15217 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15217 Three crew members of UW Health Med Flight lost their lives late Saturday when the helicopter crashed a few miles outside of La Crosse. 2008-05-11 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15219 http://www.news.wisc.edu/15219