HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq:HTGM), a provider of instruments, reagents, and services for molecular profiling applications, today announced the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued two U.S. Patents covering HTG’s technology and applications of its technology. Continue reading
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ASU’s Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center part of $5 million to apply big data to the fight against the unremitting illness
Alzheimer’s, a mysterious disease of cognitive decline, was first recognized a century ago. The unremitting illness continues to frustrate the best efforts toward treatment or prevention, and a tidal wave of new cases in the coming decades threatens to overwhelm the nation’s health-care system.Continue reading
$30M Gift Announced for UA’s Biosphere 2
As the world’s population nears 8 billion, a $30 million endowment from Edward P. Bass will enable Biosphere 2 to address some of the century’s most critical questions in food, water and energy security.Continue reading
Could chili peppers become the hottest new thing in weight loss?
ASU study shows 1st promising links between active ingredient capsaicinoids and an individual’s energy-burning abilityContinue reading
FDA Grants “Fast Track” Status to Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals’ Lead Drug CPP-1X/sul for Treatment of Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
CPP-1X/sul aims to prevent disease progression in patients with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
Mark W. Mitchell, Mayor of the City of Tempe Arizona, to be honored with the AZBio Public Service Award at the 2017 AZBio Awards
The Arizona Bioindustry Association will honor Mark W. Mitchell, Mayor of the City of Tempe Arizona, with the AZBio Public Service Award at the 2017 AZBio Awards. Arizona life science and business leaders as well as guests from across the country will be on hand to applaud Mayor Mitchell for his leadership and support of Tempe’s growing life science industry.Continue reading
SalutarisMD Featured on MetroWeek
SalutarisMD is developing a minimally invasive ophthalmic technology for the treatment of Wet AMD. The technology delivers a single dose of brachytherapy.
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Arizona Alzheimer’s collaboration lands $5M grant
The research project is a collaborative effort between the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, Banner Sun Health Research Institute, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), the Arizona State University-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center at the Biodesign Institute, and the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium. It also includes researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.Continue reading
Students Use CyVerse to Help Predict Mosquito-Borne Diseases
A UA course employed the CyVerse computational resource to develop the proof of concept for a map that predicts the abundance of mosquitoes transmitting diseases such as Zika virus and Dengue fever across the U.S.Continue reading