Category Archive for "Bioscience" |

A research team at the University of Arizona is hard on Tethys’ heels

Emeryville firm devises diabetes risk test[Source: Bernadette Tansey, Chronicle Staff Writer] – An Emeryville biomedical company is about to market a test that it hopes will reduce the terrible health toll of the U.S. diabetes epidemic and, at the same time, slash the nation’s costs for medical care. The diagnostic test to be launched next […]

Toad Research Could Leapfrog To New Muscle Model

[Source:ScienceDaily] – A toad sits at a pond’s edge eyeing a cricket on a blade of grass. In the blink of an eye, the toad snares the insect with its tongue. This deceptively simple, remarkably fast feeding action offers a new look at how muscles work. This fresh perspective could lead to designing more efficient […]

Alzheimer’s conference draws massive crowd

[Source: Joy Slagowski, http://www.yourwestvalley.com/] – If conference attendance is a measure of the impact Alzheimer’s disease has on a community, the effect of the disease on Arizona is staggering. At Friday’s Arizona’s Alzheimer’s Consortium 2008 annual conference, nearly 900 researchers, health care providers, caregivers, families and patients filled the conference room at Renaissance Glendale Hotel […]

Institute forms to prevent and treat cancer in rural communities

[Source: NAU] – Cancer research and community outreach throughout Arizona recently received a financial boost from the National Cancer Institute. The institute awarded a $200,000 renewable annual grant to the Arizona Cancer Center at the University of Arizona to help establish a Cancer Health Disparities Institute that will unite cancer prevention and treatment to underserved […]

Steele Children’s Research Center’s Novel Cancer Vaccine

[Source Deb Daun, Bio5] – A novel therapeutic cancer vaccine developed by a research team at The University of Arizona Steele Children

Mayo Clinic cancer investigator builds prodigious research network

Multiple myeloma is a relatively rare form of cancer, accounting for around 1 percent of all cancer diagnoses. But even at that frequency, it affects a huge number of people: This year, in the United States alone, 20,000 people will be diagnosed with the disease, which is the second most common cancer of the blood. For myeloma patients and many others living with cancer, the work of Rafael Fonseca is vital.

UA Plant Scientists Develop New Cell-Sorting Technique

[Source: Deborah Daun, BIO5] – A new cell-sorting technique developed by UA plant scientists has the potential to enhance our understanding of how cells of all types work–or, in the case of diseases such as cancer, of how they fail to work. Living organisms, including plants and animals, are made up of recognizable structures (which […]

Vertigo Can Be Treated Easily And Quickly

[Source: ScienceDaily] – A new guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology found that the best treatment for vertigo is the easiest and quickest one. The guideline on benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), an inner ear disorder that is a common cause of dizziness, is published in the May 27, 2008, issue of Neurology. […]

Consortium Supports UA Researcher’s Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Research

[Source: Deborah Daun, BIO5] – A European consortium promoting non-embryonic stem cell research has chosen a UA professor’s work on preventing vision loss as one of the first projects they will fund. NovusSanguis (literally “new blood”) launched this May and seeks to support research that uses both stem cells from umbilical cord blood and adult […]

Ranking touts ASU’s impact in ecology research

[Source: ASUNews] – ASU’s research and publication efforts have landed the university at the sixth spot in Thomson Scientific