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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 master

NHGRI 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 Alzheimer

UA 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 […]

Three new first-in-class cancer therapies developed at UA

Researchers at The University of Arizona

BNI

Dr. Stephen L. Macknik, Ph.D., is the director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology at the Barrow Neurological Institute, in Phoenix, AZ. His research interests are to explain the neural underpinnings of visual and olfactory perception in the brain. His primary interest in sensory processing is to understand how networks of neuronal cells in the […]

UA Clinical trial for detection of MRSA leads to FDA approval

The University of Arizona

Research Team Identifies New Alzheimer’s Gene

Research Team Identifies New Alzheimer

TGen study identifying alteration in gene associated with uterine cancer lays groundwork for more targeted therapies

Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute announced the discovery of previously unrecognized alterations in a gene called FGFR2 in a subset of endometrial cancers, the most common gynecologic cancer in the United States. The mutations in FGFR2 result in uncontrolled cell division, a hallmark of cancer. The findings, reported by TGen and research colleagues […]

Two-week forensics course for Tucson students and teachers begins Wednesday

[Source: Rachel Hamilton, Tucson Citizen] — A University of Arizona science program is offering high school students, college freshmen and grade-school teachers an opportunity for an intensive, two-week forensics course. “Forensics: The Science Detectives” is offered by the Arizona Research Laboratories, an interdisciplinary program run by UA research science departments, with the Tucson Police Crime […]