Bioscience
SPIE Announces Newly-Elected 2009 Officers and Directors
Source: MARKET WIRE via COMTEX] – SPIE 2008 President Kevin Harding announced the recent election results at the Annual General Meeting of the Society, 12 August, 2008, in San Diego, California. Terms begin January 1, 2009. The 2009 Society Officers: Maria J. Yzuel was elected by SPIE members to serve as the 2009 President. Yzuel […]Brain Mechanisms Underlying Attention, Awareness Being Probed
[Source: MedIndia.com] – U.S. scientists have joined forces with world-famous magicians to discover the brain mechanisms that underlie attention and awareness. Dr. Stephen Macknik and Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde, two neuroscientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, believe that this collaboration may benefit the fields of education and medical rehabilitation by […]Southern Arizona bioscience industry is doing amazing things
[Source: Joe Pangburn, Inside Tucson Business] – Southern Arizona is quickly becoming one of the nationIndependent, innovative as always, Gore makes a move to grow
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 hub. Now this exceptional company, which already has 20 percent of its workforce in Arizona, is doubling down to establish a new medical-devices campus in Phoenix.
Global Warming Forecasts Not Taking Into Account Nanoscale Atmospheric Aerosols
[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 Crozier and James Anderson. Crozier is an associate professor in ASU’s School of Materials, which […]M&Ms As Diet Food? 100-calorie Pack Misconceptions
[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. Scott, Stephen M. Nowlis, Naomi Mandel, and Andrea C. Morales (all Arizona State University) examined […]A new weapon to fight cancer – tobacco plants
[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 as well as treatments for other diseases. The experiments are part of a growing field […]A Trained Eye Finally Solved the Anthrax Puzzle
[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 the anthrax. The dots, or in this case more than a thousand separate anthrax samples, […]NHGRI SEEKS DNA SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGIES FIT FOR ROUTINE LABORATORY AND MEDICAL USE
[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 DNA as a routine part of biomedical research and health care. “The ability to comprehensively […]For information about Bioscience, please contact:
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