Category Archive for "Bioscience" |

VC firm manager: Investment helps keep biotech firms local

To date, Trac is the only venture capital firm in the state that focuses solely on investing in Arizona-based biotech startups.

Alzheimer’s disease strikes people with Down syndrome

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is another installment of a series exploring issues faced by families who care for special needs adults.

Mesa company gets approval to market ultrasound treatment

[Source: Phoenix Business Journal] – A Mesa medical device maker has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin marketing its ultrasound technology to perform eyebrow lifts without surgery. Next, it hopes the same technology will be OK’d for other applications ranging from the treatment of liver cancer to acne. Using “intense […]

T-Health Institute pushes Arizona

[Source: Al Bravo, University of Arizona, 602-827-2022] PHOENIX – Arizona is poised to take a national leadership role in development of innovative health-care education strategies and initiatives and save lives by reducing medical errors, thanks to the recent opening of the University of Arizona’s Institute for Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth (T-Health Institute) at the Phoenix […]

New Therapy May Be Effective Against Bacterial Infections and Sepsis

Sepsis, the systemic inflammatory response to infection, affects more than 700,000 people annually in the U.S. alone and is the leading cause of death in the intensive care unit

Corn genome sequencing & analysis papers published

The collaboration had two levels, Washington University's Genome Sequencing Center — along with collaborators at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, University of Arizona, and Iowa State University — were part of the main genome sequencing consortium

ASU students, staff get vaccinated against swine flu

Students, teachers invited to discuss health care reform

Project Civil Discourse presentsSpeaking, Not Shouting: A Community Conversation About Health Care Reform Tuesday, December 1, 2009Check-in 5:30 p.m.6:15 – 9:00 p.m. AE England Building, Civic Space Park444 N. Central Ave.Phoenix, AZ 85004 Listen and be heard. Speaking, Not Shouting: A Community Conversation About Health Care Reform will engage participants in a town hall discussion that captures opinions […]

uResearch website helps ASU students find research projects

Nikolai De Vera, The State Press, [email protected] ASU students seeking research opportunities can now use uResearch, a new Web site designed to connect them with research positions for academic purposes, which officially launched this week. The site, created by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs, allows students to search for […]

Science challenge for Flagstaff schools takes off

By HILLARY DAVISSun Staff Reporter Thursday, November 19, 2009 Flagstaff Unified School District has scored a major grant to boost science education and eventually build a state-of-the art space flight simulator expected to draw thousands of school children from around northern Arizona. The $500,000 grant allows FUSD to send students on field trips to the […]