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
Lichens Function As Indicators Of Nitrogen Pollution In Forests
October 17, 2008
[Source; ScienceDaily ] – Scientists have found lichens can give insight into nitrogen air pollution effects on Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino mountain ecosystems, and protecting them provides safeguards for less sensitive species.Their findings are presented this month in the…
Economic crisis could slow UA research into drugs, therapies
October 16, 2008
[Source: ALAN FISCHER, Tucson Citizen] – The continuing economic crisis could see the development of lifesaving drugs and therapies delayed. Biotech researchers, already stung by funding cutbacks, fear the $700 billion bailout will further crimp their efforts to bring new…
Banner Thunderbird Medical Center to add more-precise cancer treatment
October 16, 2008
[Source: Carrie Watters, The Arizona Republic] – Banner Thunderbird Medical Center this month will install a machine that makes radiation treatments more precise and less time-consuming. The $3.1 million piece of technology also will save on trips to Phoenix. The…
Using Living Cells As Nanotechnology Factories
October 16, 2008
[Source: ScienceDaily] – In the tiny realm of nanotechnology, scientists have used a wide variety of materials to build atomic scale structures. But just as in the construction business, nanotechnology researchers can often be limited by the amount of raw…
UA Researcher Hones in on in Gaps in the Evolutionary “Tree of Life”
October 16, 2008
[Source: Deb Daun, BIO5] – Significant work remains before we can complete the evolutionary “tree of life,” according to University of Arizona (UA) Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Michael Sanderson, PhD. Sanderson, who is a BIO5 member, recently took…
From Jellyfish to Plants to Everything Alive: How a Magic Marker Altered Bioscience
October 16, 2008
[Source; Deb Daun, BIO5] – In a fortunate stroke of collaboration, a University of Arizona scientist has helped transform the Nobel-prize winning idea of marking cells with the bright green glow of a jellyfish into a basic tool of modern…
