Category Archive for "Bioscience" |

Biomarkers consortium launches website to accept proposals, provide funding updates

[Source: GenomeWeb staff reporter] — The Biomarkers Consortium today said it has launched a website that can be used to submit biomarker project concepts, to obtain funding information, as a contact point, and for updated news about the consortium

Former surgeon trades scrubs to build Mayo’s future

Several years ago, Dr. Victor Trastek gave up a rewarding surgical career to take the reins of Mayo Clinic in Arizona. For a passionate physician like Trastek, the transition to life outside the operating room was not an easy one. However, in the years since, Trastek has helped Mayo shape an ambitious plan for the future.

Arizona high school students win national engineering design competition

[Source: Abra McAndrew, University Communications, University of Arizona] — An Arizona team representing Tucson High School earned first place in the national Mathematics, Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) Engineering Design competition which took place in Maryland on June 22-24. The Tucson High team competed in the performance of their design of a modern version of the […]

University of Arizona BIO5 researchers feel the spring in RNA

[Source: Deborah Dawn, Bio5 Institute] — Researchers from the BIO5 Institute at The University of Arizona have used optical tweezers technology to observe the unraveling of molecular sized helices within individual molecules of messenger RNA. This important class of RNA molecules is the essential connection between the genomic information of the DNA double helix, and […]

UA announces appointments at College of Agriculture & Life Sciences

The University of Arizona announced several administrative appointments of members of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences executive council. Eugene G. Sander will assume responsibility as acting executive vice president and provost May 28-June 30, 2007, while current provost George H. Davis will be on a well-deserved vacation. Effective July 1, 2007, and until […]

New at the Arizona Science Center in downtown Phoenix

New at the Arizona Science Center: Deep Sea 3D in the IMAX

Sports, science a winning combination

[Source: eSchool News Today] — Bobby Cook always thought of snowboarding as a weekend pleasure. He never dreamed he could parlay his love for the outdoors into a lucrative career. “I had no clue I could take my physics degree and work for a winter sports company,” the Tamaqua, Pa., native said. “I was hooked.” […]

Roche attempts hostile takeover of Ventana

Pharmaceutical giant Roche Holding AG, the world’s largest maker of diagnostic tests, has made an unsolicited $3 billion bid to buy Oro Valley-based Ventana Medical Systems Inc. Roche has tried to negotiate with Ventana for several months, but Ventana officials told Business Journal that they were not interested in another company obtaining an equity position […]

Boosting math & science education goal of Philanthropy Roundtable

Here is the summary of the Philanthropy Roundtable’s spring K-12 education meeting entitled,

Congress schooled on STEM teaching crisis

[Source: Laura Devaney, Associate Editor, eSchool News] — At a June 21 briefing on Capitol Hill, federal legislators and policy makers got a lesson in why schools have a hard time recruiting and retaining teachers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) — and what lawmakers can do to change that. The lack of a […]