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
Collaboration looks to produce hothouse tomatoes so good they could become the ultimate cure-all
August 10, 2007
[Source: Philip S. Moore, Inside Tucson Business] –
More math, science pose worthwhile challenges (Tucson Citizen editorial)
August 10, 2007
[Source: Tucson Citizen editorial board] — We urge the state Board of Education to enact more stringent high school math and science requirements when it meets Friday. A requirement for four years of high school math and three years of…
Pima C.C. offers two biotech courses
August 10, 2007
This fall, Pima Community College West Campus will offer two courses that are highly relevant to the biotechnology community. BIO 135, Genetics, Biotechnology, and Human Affairs is a non-majors, general education course which would be highly appropriate for someone wanting…
State may add more math and science classes to graduate
August 09, 2007
[Source: Ryan Gabrielson, East Valley Tribune] — Mathaphobes beware: You may never escape quadratic equations before you graduate. The State Board of Education is to consider today dramatically increasing the number of math and science classes high school students must…
High school students participate in cutting-edge research at ASU
August 08, 2007
[Source: Julie Kurth, ASU, 480-727-9386] — A group of researchers at ASU
NAU researchers develop new device for finding bacteria
August 08, 2007
[Source: Northern Arizona University] – Infection-causing bacteria can’t hide from researchers at Northern Arizona University, who recently helped develop the first diagnostic tool to detect them. A patent is pending for the new Lateral Flow Assay device to detect the…
NIH awards UA nearly $1M for mass spectrometer
August 07, 2007
[Source: Deborah Daun, BIO5] – The National Institutes of Health awarded a $924,995 High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant to The University of Arizona for a mass spectrometer that will assist a wide range of UA scientists, from those working on the…
