UA Team Focuses on Feeding a Hungry World

The Future of Farming Takes Root

Sustainable agriculture is quickly becoming the wave of the future as global leaders grapple with the question of how to feed a world population approaching 10 billion. At the University of Arizona, researchers are looking up for answers, in the form of vertical farming.

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bioSyntagma Awarded $200k Phase I NIH SBIR Grant to Advance Development of a Next-Generation Single-Cell Biomarker Discovery Platform

bioSyntagma, LLC, a precision medicine company, has been awarded  a nearly $200,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new platform for mapping multi-omic biomarkers from single-cells in cancer patient biopsies.  bioSyntagma’s Principal Scientist, Dmitry Derkach, M.D., Ph.D., is the Principal Investigator for the project. Continue reading

Castle Biosciences Announces Receipt of New York Laboratory Permit

Castle Biosciences, Inc., a provider of molecular diagnostics to improve cancer treatment decisions, today announced that it has received its Clinical Laboratory Permit from the New York State Department of Health, including approval for three clinical tests. The receipt of the New York permit allows patients in that state to benefit from the Company’s DecisionDx®-Melanoma, DecisionDx®-UM and DecisionDx®-PRAME molecular diagnostic tests that provide actionable molecular information to inform patient care decisions.

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Applications are open for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation

The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (NMTI) is now accepting nominations for 2018. Awarded by the President of the United States, the NMTI is the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement. If you know of an individual, team, or company that has made an outstanding technological contribution to United States’ economic, environmental, or social well-being, you can submit nominations until the April 6 deadline. The nomination form, a sample recommendation letter, and FAQs are available on the NMTI website.Continue reading