Bioscience
Women attack heart disease
[Source: Susie Steckner, Special for The Republic] – Admit it, you could probably eat more healthful food, exercise more and take better care of yourself. Add your high-stress job into the mix, and you’ve increased your risk of heart disease. As a health-care executive and mother of three, Ruby Majhail was a heart attack waiting […]MMRC Genomics Initiative Presents Two Abstracts at American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) 2008 Annual Meeting
[Source: PharmaLive.com] – The Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC), presented two abstracts during the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research, including one that was selected for oral presentation, based on data from the MMRC Multiple Myeloma Genomics Initiative. In an oral session, Daniel Auclair, PhD, manager of the Initiative for the […]Rats facing NAU spay chemical
[Source:CYNDY COLE, Arizona Daily Sun Staff Reporter] – As the United Nations warns of a global crisis and residents of more than a dozen countries riot because of rapidly increasing food prices, rice-field rats in Southeast Asia are chowing down in the world’s rice bowl. The rodents, able to produce 600 offspring from one pair […]Scientists Call For More Access To Biotech Crop Data
[Source: ScienceDaily] – More than one billion acres of biotech crops have been grown in the US, but their environmental impacts are not fully known. In Arizona, farmers share maps of biotech cotton fields with University of Arizona scientists, enabling detailed analyses of the effects of this technology. Now a team of biologists proposes that […]New Global Citizens seeks high school students to make a difference
Can a dodgeball tournament help fight AIDS in Africa?Can an art auction send girls to school in Afghanistan?Can a bake sale build wells in India? Through New Global Citizens it can. New Global Citizens is looking for high school students to start teams at their schools. NGC is looking for young people with a PASSION […]Town hall seeks answers on “who will teach our children?”
[Source: Terry Organ, Kingman Daily Miner] — Bea Yazzie is dealing with more homework than she assigns to her first-graders at Hualapai Elementary School. Yazzie, who is of Navajo descent, is reading through a seven-chapter book concerning “Who Will Teach Our Children” to prepare her as a representative to the 92nd Arizona Town Hall to […]Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests.
[Source: CNN] – The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis released Thursday. The report notes that a separate study by researchers at Stanford University estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began […]UA Researchers Tackling Unsolved Questions about Protein Structures
[Source: Deborah Dawn, BIO5] – A University of Arizona research team is exploring the evolutionary origins of protein structures. Their findings help us better understand how proteins evolved to carry out the instructions encoded in the genes of every living thing. Protein molecules are made up of chains of amino acids. These chains bend and […]Tucson area students: register by April 25 for summer math & science camp
[Source: Northwest Explorer News] — Incoming Tucson-area high school sophomores of Hispanic heritage must register by Friday, April 25, for a summer math and science skills enrichment experience. Sci-Tech Summer Camp is set for the University of Arizona in Tucson July 9 through 12. It is presented by Advancing Hispanic Excellence in Technology, Engineering, Math, […]For information about Bioscience, please contact:
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