Live Blog: Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap
Welcome to the Flinn Foundation Bio Blog where you will receive the latest news throughout 2025 (and beyond) on the next iteration of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap.
The Roadmap is the nation’s longest-running, statewide bioscience strategic plan. Bookmark this page for regular updates on the biosciences in Arizona and the development of the new Roadmap coming this fall.
Live Blog: Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap
News and Updates
Science programs worth cost
October 27, 2008
[Source: Jeffery Trent: My Turn, The Arizona Republic] – The Translational Genomics Research Institute helps Arizona students pursue a lifetime of science learningRecently published results from this spring’s first science test administered by Arizona’s Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) showed…
Company picks Valley to develop skin products
October 27, 2008
[Source: Ken Alltucker, The Arizona Republic ] – Sunshine and skin damage have prompted a San Diego biotechnology company to expand in Arizona to develop a line of anti-aging skin products. Histogen Inc. has opened a Tempe office and plans…
Panel weighing UA overhaul’s proposals faces daunting task
October 27, 2008
[Source: Aaron Mackey, ARIZONA DAILY STAR] – One day into a review of roughly 75 proposals to make the UA more efficient, those charged with sorting through the ideas see a monumentally confusing task before them. While there are several…
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group and US Oncology Enter Collaboration to Increase Patient Access to National Clinical Trials
October 27, 2008
[Source: Collaboration Brings Cooperative Group Level Radiation Therapy Trials to US Oncology Affiliates’ Patients for First Time The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) and US Oncology, Inc. today announced they have entered into a collaboration to increase patient access to…
Diatom Genome Helps Explain Their Great Diversity and Success in Trapping Excess Carbon in Oceans
October 27, 2008
[Source: Deborah Daun, BIO5] – Diatoms, mighty microscopic algae, have profound influence on climate, producing 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe by capturing atmospheric carbon and in so doing, countering the greenhouse effect. Since their evolutionary origins these photosynthetic…
UA researchers are finding a new way to reduce food-borne illness in humans
October 27, 2008
[Source: Susan McGinley, UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences] – Most people are familiar with Salmonella and its potential to make people ill. But fewer know about Campylobacter jejuni
