Category Archive for "Bioscience" |

ASU’s biomedical informatics department aims to transform health care

"Biomedical informatics" may not ring a bell to most, though the relatively new and fast-growing field is playing an essential role in advancing personalized medicine and transforming health care. In Arizona, its activity is now centered at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, where ASU's Department of Biomedical Informatics provides a vital component of the new medical school while carving its own niche in a just-opened, cutting-edge facility.

Tucson’s ImaRx goes public

ImaRx Therapeutics, a Tucson-based drug developer, became the city's fifth firm traded on a major exchange on Thursday with a $15 million initial public offering. Tucson now has two publicly traded bioscience firms: ImaRx and Ventana Medical Systems.

Tucson schools’ biotechnology training praised

[Source: Mary Bustamante, Tucson Citizen] — Three Tucson Unified School District high schools have been recognized for their programs in biotechnology. Palo Verde, Pueblo and Tucson high magnet schools were featured in a Flinn Foundation and Salt River Project report, “Building the Bioscience Pipeline.” The report said the three schools had “sophisticated and specialized laboratory […]

Student sleuths unravel secrets of DNA at UA camp

[Source: Tucson Citizen] — Extracting DNA from a banana and collecting fingerprints were part of the fun last week at CSI Camp at the Arizona Cancer Center. The camp offered seventh- and eighth-grade students the opportunity to be part of a team of medical-evidence experts. Campers formed an investigative team and discovered where germs hide […]

Tucson teen interns get early look at life in science

[Source: Bryanna Botham, Tucson Citizen] — While most Tucson teens are enjoying the lazy days of summer, others are interns at research laboratories. Over the past five weeks, nine students have spent their days working as research interns in eight University of Arizona science laboratories. They are participants in the K-12 Engaging Youth in Science […]

BNI in Phoenix hosts 12th Annual Student Poster Day

On Monday, July 30 high school and undergraduate students working in the Barrow Neurosciences Research Laboratories will present posters and slide talks of their research projects. Interested persons are welcome to attend. Location: Goldman Auditorium and Marley Lobby of the Neuroscience Research Center at St. Joseph

Survey: Math Courses Aid Science Studies

[Source: Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer] — Students who had more math courses in high school did better in all types of science once they got to college, researchers say. On the other hand, while high school courses in biology, chemistry or physics improved college performance in each of the individual sciences, taking a […]

Arizona science teachers discover that learning can be seriously fun

[Source: Amy K. Erickson, Translational Genomics Research Institute] — Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren once said, “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” The truth of this statement was recently underscored at a TGen/NAU-hosted hands-on genomics workshop for high school teachers designed to boost their bioscience expertise. In July, 24 teachers […]

How Tennessee is increasing the number of math & science teachers

[Source: Beverly A. Carroll, Chattanooga Times Free Press] — Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is committed to expanding a 2-year-old program to fast-track professionals through teacher training to help school districts hire teachers for hard-to-fill math and science positions. “It’s a dirt cheap program,” he said. “It’s been kind of quiet, under the radar.” Gov. Bredesen […]

Helping middle schoolers to become innovators

At a recent meeting of the National Governor’s Association (NGA), Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano announced a new Web site, “You Innovate 21.” The Web site, a partnership between NGA and Scholastic Inc., the global children’s publishing, education and media company, was developed to provide middle school students with the tools to become innovators and leaders […]