AZBio has announced the members of the 2020 cohort of Presenting Companies at White Hat 2020. The White Hat Life Science Investor Conference (White Hat 2020) is a biotech and healthcare investor…
After a competitive, multi-state process, Nanomoneo, a biotechnology instrument company, announced today that it has selected the University of Arizona Center for Innovation in Tucson, Arizona for its new applied…
Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer with over 12,000 new cases a year and a 16-month median survival rate. Due to the complexity and unique…
Executives from three of the world’s largest biopharmaceutical research and manufacturing companies said Wednesday that they are racing hand-in-hand to get a viable vaccine for COVID-19 out to the world…
As the number of Arizonans who have contracted COVID-19 has raced past 100,000, testing for the novel coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease has become a priority. Some of that…
“We seem to have lost sight of the deeper drivers of an accelerating risk of infectious disease transmission to the world,” wrote Leah Gerber, professor of conservation science and director of…
Evidence suggests the use of vaccines goes as far back as the year 1000, but the modern-day practice of widespread inoculation can be attributed to English physician Edward Jenner, whose…
Many people are staying at home as much as possible, avoiding mass gatherings and practicing social distancing. They haven’t shown any symptoms that would indicate they have COVID-19. But should…
Sometimes, the importance of a scientific discovery isn’t understood until many years after the fact. Consider, for example, the gap between understanding DNA markers and being able to test them…
The search to better understand and treat disease during the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the critical importance of medical research. University of Arizona – Banner Health All of Us Research…
Spring cleaning took on a whole new meaning in 2020. Spring cleaning in 2020 was not a recommitment to household chores but instead a society-wide commitment to washing our hands…
In an effort to make COVID-19 diagnostic testing easier and more readily available to Arizonans, researchers at Arizona State University have developed the state’s first saliva-based test. “This new saliva-based…
