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Category Archives: BioScience
Making a Difference: AZBio Advocacy in Support of BioFuels Initiatives
When AZBio and AZBio Members work together with our partners across the country, we can make a difference. AZBio member Robert Shatz of Arizona CarbonTech Cooperative, Inc. shares a real-world example of advocacy and partnership in action.Continue reading
Needed: A Global Bioinformatics System
By La Monica Everett-Haynes, University Communications | August 6, 2012
P. Bryan Heidorn, who directs the UA School of Information Resources and Library Science, is part of a global team that is working to develop standards for gathering, storing and disseminating important information about plants, animals and the environment.Continue reading
Great Video of the UA Health Sciences Building at the UA College of Medicine Phoenix
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix is in its sixth year of training medical students in downtown Phoenix. Housed in the renovated historic Phoenix Union High School buildings, the College of Medicine – Phoenix anchors the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. The College of Medicine – Phoenix is currently training 183 medical students and at capacity plans to graduate 120 physicians per year.Continue reading
AlgaeBio Prepares for Omega-3 Launch
Algae BioSciences, an Arizona-based biotechnology company now completing a $5-million, first-phase expansion process, will soon begin commercial production of its ultra-pure omega-3 fatty acid oils. The oils will be sourced from marine algae and grown in Arizona sunlight, at the company’s production facilities in the high desert plains near Holbrook.Continue reading
ASU Biodesign Scientists explore new class of synthetic vaccines
In a quest to make safer and more effective vaccines, scientists at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have turned to a promising field called DNA nanotechnology to make an entirely new class of synthetic vaccines.Continue reading
New LIfe And Soon A New Baby
Texas Mother Bridged to Heart Transplant with Total Artificial Heart Excited to Adopt New Baby One Year Later Continue reading
UA medical school in Phoenix a hub of growth
At UA medical school in Phoenix, new students and new buildings underscore promise for future
by Ken Alltucker– Jul. 21, 2012 03:37 PM The Republic | azcentral.comContinue reading
Quality, Commitment, and Care: A look at Tucson Medical Center
Member Spotlight: Tucson Medical Center, licensed at 615 beds, has been Tucson’s locally governed nonprofit regional hospital for more than 65 years. TMC is Southern Arizona’s leading provider for emergency care and pediatric care (including Tucson’s first Pediatric Emergency Department), with top-notch intensive care units for adults, children and newborns. Other specialty areas include women’s, maternity, cardiovascular, orthopaedic, neuroscience, hospice, imaging and senior services. Continue reading
Beneficial bacteria may help ward off infection
While many bacteria exist as aggressive pathogens, causing diseases ranging from tuberculosis and cholera, to plague, diphtheria and toxic shock syndrome, others play a less malevolent role and some are critical for human health.Continue reading