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November 24, 2009

Bioscience / Biotech

04/03/08

Bioscience / Biotech:  Poultry vaccine holds promise for mankind

An ASU vaccine project for a common poultry infection could provide a boost to protecting people against salmonella, another poultry disease that is the leading cause of food-borne illness.

03/31/08

Bioscience / Biotech:  Researcher's nanodevice could cut airport lines

ASU researcher Wayne Frasch has developed a biosensing nanodevice with the potential to eliminate long lines at the airport and revolutionize health screenings for life-threating diseases.

03/12/08

Bioscience / Biotech:  Yan earns prestigious Sloan Foundation fellowship

Biodesign researcher Hao Yan is the recipient of the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship, which is intented to enhance the careers of the best young faculty members in specified fields of science.

03/10/08

Bioscience / Biotech:  Microorganisms used to cut toxins in groundwater

ASU researchers have developed a method of transforming a chlorinated solvent found in groundwater into a harmless product.

03/06/08

Bioscience / Biotech:  Researchers visualize pigments in live bacteria cells

ASU researchers are providing fresh insights into what happens on a molecular level during photosynthesis.

02/29/08

Bioscience / Biotech:  Meteorite molecules mirror those on Earth

ASU researchers have found that possible precursor compounds to the origin of life on Earth have been shown to carry “handedness” in a larger number than previously thought.

02/22/08

Students | Bioscience / Biotech | Life Science:  Doctoral Student receives Watkins and NIH Fellowships

Ariel Jones, a doctoral student in School of Life Sciences was awarded a predoctoral fellowship from National Institutes of Health (NIAID) to study the “Role of coronavirus membrane protein carboxy tail in virus.”

02/19/08

Science | Bioscience / Biotech:  Bioethicist says mental illness is subject to biological and sociocultural factors

Biology is crucial to understanding psychosis, “but there is more to psychosis than mere biology,” says Jason Robert, an ASU bioethicist and philosopher of science.

02/06/08

Bioscience / Biotech:  DNA nanotechnology could transform gene detection

Scientists at ASU’s Biodesign Institute are revolutionizing the way in which genes are analyzed.

01/31/08

Bioscience / Biotech:  Tobacco plants may provide virus cure

Armed with a $1.5 million grant, ASU researchers are enlisting tobacco plants in the fight against West Nile virus.