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
Southern Arizona bioscience industry is doing amazing things
August 26, 2008
[Source: Joe Pangburn, Inside Tucson Business] – Southern Arizona is quickly becoming one of the nation
Independent, innovative as always, Gore makes a move to grow
August 25, 2008
W. L. Gore & Associates, which operates in an astonishing variety of industries, is a major force in the biosciences in Arizona. Flagstaff's largest private employer, thanks to its medical-devices facilities there, Gore has single-handedly made the city an industry…
Global Warming Forecasts Not Taking Into Account Nanoscale Atmospheric Aerosols
August 25, 2008
[Source: ScienceDaily ] – Arizona State University researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect on climate change of a key component of urban pollution. The discovery could lead to more accurate forecasting of possible global-warming activity, say Peter…
M&Ms As Diet Food? 100-calorie Pack Misconceptions
August 25, 2008
[Source: ScienceDaily] – Beware of mini-packs and mini-foods, especially if you’re a dieter. Chronic dieters tend to consume more calories when foods and packages are smaller, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Authors Maura L.…
A new weapon to fight cancer – tobacco plants
August 22, 2008
[Source: Ken Alltucker, The Arizona Republic] – Tobacco is better known as a cause of cancer rather than a potential cure. But scientists in Arizona and elsewhere believe tobacco plants may hold the key to developing a personalized cancer vaccine…
A Trained Eye Finally Solved the Anthrax Puzzle
August 21, 2008
[Source New York Times, By NICHOLAS WADE] – When the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced it had cracked the long-unsolved anthrax case, the turning point cited by the bureau was its identification of a laboratory flask as the source of…
NHGRI SEEKS DNA SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGIES FIT FOR ROUTINE LABORATORY AND MEDICAL USE
August 20, 2008
[Source NIH Press] – The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today awarded more than $20 million in grants to develop innovative sequencing technologies inexpensive and efficient enough to sequence a person’s…
