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Shortliffe named top executive of biomedical informatics group

[Source: The Arizona Republic, Ken Alltucker] – Edward “Ted” Shortliffe, the former dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, has been named the top executive of a national biomedical informatics group. As president and chief executive officer of Bethesda, Md.-based American Medical Informatics Association, Shortliffe will strive to promote and grow a niche […]

Cuts concern UA biotech guru Cusanovich

[Source: Dan Sullivan, Arizona Daily Star] – The summer between his freshman and sophomore years in college, Mike Cusanovich worked at a chemical company “making things that went boom and then making them go boom.” One day that summer, he was sitting in a bunker that suddenly exploded, sending him to the hospital for six […]

Conquering the ‘ewww’ factor of the public potty

[Source: CNN] — Most of us have them — the personal ritual to deal with the “ick” of a public bathroom: wiping the seat with toilet paper, using a paper seat cover or even rolling up several pieces of toilet paper to create a thicker barrier between the skin and … the unknown.But the toilet […]

HIV/AIDS Pandemic Began Around 1900, Earlier Than Previously Thought; Urbanization In Africa Marked Outbreak

[Source: ScienceDaily ] – New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, suggesting that growing urbanization in colonial Africa set the stage for the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The estimated period of origin, considerably earlier than the previous estimate of 1930, coincides with the establishment and […]

Ariz. must sustain research support for Alzheimer’s

Ariz. must sustain research support for Alzheimer's

Nanotechnology Will Make Proteomics Experiments Lightning Fast

[Source: Aaron Rowe, Wired] – Some of the biggest experiments in biology have hit a significant bottleneck. Proteomics researchers learn a tremendous amount about disease by measuring every single protein in a group of unhealthy cells, but they need a faster way to sort the molecules before analyzing them. Tiny spheres, made from silicon dioxide, […]

AZBio honors Arizona bio leaders

Some of the brightest stars, greatest inspirations, and most reliable champions in Arizona's bioscience enterprise were honored Sept. 18 at the annual awards dinner of the Arizona BioIndustry Association. More than 400 people attended the event in Tempe, which featured a keynote address by James C. Greenwood, president & CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the nation's largest bioscience trade association.

The BeamPath NEURO System: First Flexible CO2 Laser Scalpel

[Source: www.MedGadget.com] – OmniGuide, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) has recently announced their new BeamPath NEURO

Shifty eye movements behind famous optical illusion

[Source: New Scientist, David Robson] – The cause of an optical illusion, made famous by a 1981 painting, has finally been solved. See a slideshow of that illusion and others. Neuroscientists have shown that the way our eyes constantly make tiny movements is responsible for the way concentric circles in Isia Leviant’s painting ‘Enigma’ (see […]

Lacosamide Controls Partial-Onset Epileptic Seizures: Presented at ANA

[Source: Docguide.com, Andrew N. Wilner, MD, FACP, FAA] – Lacosamide is more effective than placebo in decreasing seizure frequency in patients with uncontrolled partial-onset epileptic seizures, according to results of a phase 3 trial presented here at the American Neurological Association (ANA) 133rd Annual Meeting. These results reinforce the findings of 2 previous trials of […]