Category Archive for "Bioscience" |

Runoff Research Promotes Healthier Aquifers

[Source: USDA, Laura McGinnis] – Where rain falls can influence the quality of surface water before it enters underground reservoirs, some of which provide water that eventually comes out of our taps. That’s one conclusion from a collaborative study by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Arizona (UA). The ARS and UA […]

Cepheid Receives FDA Clearance for First Rapid On-Demand Molecular Diagnostic Test for MRSA and S. aureus

[Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX] – Cepheid today announced it has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Xpert(TM) MRSA/SA Skin and Soft Tissue Infection (SSTI) test, which runs on the GeneXpert(R) System, for the rapid detection of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Staphylococcus aureus (SA, typically Methicillin-sensitive) in skin […]

BIO5 to Host 7th Arizona Biosciences Leadership Symposium

[Source University of Arizona Communications] – Scott Patterson, executive director for medical services at Amgen, is the keynote speaker at the 7th Arizona Biosciences Leadership Symposium, taking place at The University of Arizona’s Student Union Memorial Center. The event is hosted by the UA’s BIO5 Institute on behalf of the Flinn Foundation and the Arizona […]

Sexual Practice Of Polygyny Skews Genetic Variability

[Source: ScienceDaily] – Women have been more successful on average in passing their genes on to the next generation. “This is because a few males have fathered children with multiple females, which occurs at the expense of other less successful males”, says Dr. Michael Hammer, ARL Division of Biotechnology at the University of Arizona. The […]

Understanding Underground Stems Focus of $4 million NSF Grant

[Source: Deborah Daun, BIO5] – Anyone who’s tried to remove Bermuda grass from their yard knows about plant rhizomes. These stubborn underground stems give weeds

Tucson-created cancer drug advances: South Korea in licensing accord for still-in-trials Amplimexon

[Source: Arizona Daily Star] – A local drug-development company with links to the University of Arizona got a boost from a drug-licensing deal with a South Korean company — even before the cancer drug is approved by U.S. regulators. Tucson-based AmpliMed Corp. said Wednesday that it has entered into a license agreement with a leading […]

TGen Researchers Publish New Multiplexed Sequence Approach

[Source: By a GenomeWeb staff reporter , GenomeWeb News] – In a paper appearing online in Nature Methods this weekend, a team of researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute described a new multiplexed, targeted re-sequencing strategy for assessing regions of the human genome more quickly and efficiently. The team used PCR amplicons to create […]

New dawn for Aimee after brain surgery

[Source: Daily Mercury] – AS the sun rises over Phoenix in Arizona, Aimee Anderson awakes to a new day she never thought she would see. The young mum is on the slow road to recovery after a gruelling eight-hour operation to remove a brain stem cavernoma on Tuesday, September 9. Thanks to the generosity of […]

Thomas W. Peterson to Become NSF Assistant Director for Engineering

[Source: National Science Foundation] – Thomas W. Peterson, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona, has been selected as the new assistant director of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Engineering. Peterson has served as Arizona’s dean of the engineering college since 1998. He will start at NSF in January […]

A National Science Foundation grant will allow the UA to establish a research center.

[Source: University Communications] – The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $18.5 million grant to establish an engineering research center based at The University of Arizona. The center, or ERC, will focus on removing one of the last bottlenecks in the Internet by developing optoelectronic technologies for high-bandwidth, low-cost, widespread access networks. The UA […]