Bioscience
Leaders in Arizona biosciences honored at ABA awards dinner
Eight individuals and companies were honored for their efforts to advance Arizona's emerging bioscience sector last night at the third-annual Excellence in Bioscience Awards Dinner in downtown Phoenix, hosted by the Arizona BioIndustry Association.
Summer camps pick up a clue from TV, add ‘CSI’ themes to attract kids
[Source: Lisa Nicita, Arizona Republic] — Instead of learning a new cheer or building a campfire this summer, dozens of kids from Tempe to Glendale are dusting fingerprints and testing blood. Fake blood, but still blood to the kids. New camps with forensic and crime scene investigation themes have popped up around the Valley this […]Scientific pioneer named to ASU Biodesign Institute advisory board
The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University recently named acclaimed cell biologist James E. Rothman, PhD, to its advisory board. Rothman is a professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University, director and founder of ColumbiaScience in the City helps students explore world in summer camp
[Source: Sadie Jo Smokey, Arizona Republic] — Three years ago the Phoenix Union High School District created Science in the City, a summer enrichment camp where students immerse themselves in science. The goal of the day camp, staffed by middle and high school science teachers, is to make science real and accessible. This month, more […]Link between obesity and enlarged heart discovered by UA researchers
New research from The University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center helps explain why excessive body weight increases the risk for heart disease. In the largest study of its kind, cardiologist M. Reza Movahed, MD, PhD, and research specialist Adolfo A. Martinez, MD, discovered that excessive body weight is associated with a thickening of the heart […]Statistics GIDP underway at UA
The long tradition of interdisciplinary collaboration at The University of Arizona has paved the way for the new Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP) in Statistics, according to BIO5 member Walter W. Piegorsch, PhD, a professor in the UA Mathematics Department and newly elected chair of the new GIDP. The program administers masterNHGRI Offers Access to Cancer Sequencing Data
Source: GenomeWeb staff reporter NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Human Genome Research Institute is granting access to datasets from cancer sequencing projects through open-access and controlled-access programs, NHGRI said yesterday. Researchers will be able to access controlled information from the Medical Sequencing Program by downloading individual-level genotype and assembled DNA-sequence data, NHGRI said. […]Alzheimer
A study reported by scientists at the Banner AlzheimerUA receives 925K for new instrumentation
New funds received by The University of Arizona go towards the purchase of a hybrid quadrupole (or linear ion trap) Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer with high-throughput, high-resolution, and high-mass accuracy and equipped with electron capture dissociation and infrared multi-photon dissociation. The goal; to help investigators solve problems that require detailed structural studies […]For information about Bioscience, please contact:
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