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January 16, 2009

Bioscience / Biotech

01/13/09

Bioscience / Biotech:  Researchers seek to create 'fountain of youth'

ASU's Biodesign Institute has partnered with the Methuselah Foundation in a research quest to vanquish age-related disease by making old cells feel younger.

01/12/09

Bioscience / Biotech:  Salmonella bacteria overcome harsh environments to cause illness

ASU researcher Yixin Shi has taken a keen interest in the regulatory mechanisms that allow Salmonella bacteria to overcome their surroundings and continuously modify both their own and their host’s responses in order to stay alive.

01/01/09

Bioscience / Biotech:  Researchers use nanoparticles to make 3-D DNA nanotubes

ASU researchers Hao Yan and Yan Liu imagine and assemble intricate structures on a scale almost unfathomably small, using the double-helical DNA molecule, a versatile building material offering near limitless construction potential.

12/24/08

Bioscience / Biotech:  Research points to land as origin for Earth's microbes

Biodesign postdoc Fabia Battistuzzi's new research argues that nearly two-thirds of all bacteria species share a common ancestor that was adapted to life on land.

12/15/08

Administration | Bioscience / Biotech:  Biodesign appoints Tao to lead Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors

ASU's Biodesign Institute has appointmented Nongjian (N.J.) Tao as director of the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors.

11/25/08

Engineering | Alumni | Bioscience / Biotech | Research | Engineering | Grants / Awards:  Alumni, researchers help bioengineer better heart health

Foundations led by two ASU alumni have made a joint contribution to an ASU research project seeking to improve devices used to treat and cure cardiovascular diseases.

11/17/08

Engineering | Science | Bioscience / Biotech | Research | Engineering:  ASU supercomputer will boost TGen’s biomedical research

Disease research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute will be aided by a new supercomputer system at ASU that operates at mind-boggling speed. 

11/14/08

Law | Science | Bioscience / Biotech:  Lecture engages in importance of intellectual property

Rod Fuller, a member of Fennemore Craig’s intellectual property and life sciences practice, will speak on "The Importance of Intellectual Property in Advancing Science."

11/14/08

Law | Science | Bioscience / Biotech:  College of Law hosts nanotechnology discussion

The Law and Science Student Association hosts Matt Kim, founder and president of QuantTera and Cynthia Pillote of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

11/10/08

Law | Bioscience / Biotech:  Scholars explore governance of indigenous genomics

A dozen scholars from across the globe met recently at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law to discuss the promise and perils of current efforts to transform indigenous people’s governance of genomic research.