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November 24, 2009

Bioscience / Biotech

04/30/09

Science | Bioscience / Biotech | Research | Sustainability and environment:  DOE funds bio-inspired solar fuel center at ASU

ASU is now home to a new Energy Frontier Research Center, which will pursue advanced scientific research on solar energy conversion based on the principles of photosynthesis.

04/17/09

Engineering | Science | News coverage | Bioscience / Biotech | Research | Engineering:  How's your health? Check your cell phone

Two ASU engineering researchers are working on integrating "smart phones" with sensors that can monitor people's health condition.

04/01/09

Engineering | Education | Science | Students | Alumni | Bioscience / Biotech:  Engineering program leads to 'life-changing experience'

ASU bioengineering student Liliana Rincon earned a distinctive honor of selection for a summer program in neurobiology at the renowned Woods Hole laboratory.

03/18/09

Bioscience / Biotech | Life Science | Earth / Space | Social Science:  Webcast to beam Origins Symposium to wide audience

Live captioned webcasting is one of the options that students and the public can use to watch and hear the world’s leading science intellectuals and authors discuss forefront questions of origins at ASU’s Origins Symposium April 3 and April 6.

03/18/09

Law | Science | Bioscience / Biotech | Research:  Event panel asks 'should science be shackled?'

ASU's Bioethics Club has put together a group of panelists, including Sandy Askland of ASU's Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology, to shed light on a scientist's moral responsibilities.

03/05/09

Science | Students | Bioscience / Biotech:  DNA sequencing stimulates student researcher

Charlene Bashore, once a self-proclaimed “science nerd,” is now working with DNA in hopes of discovering new ways to manufacture medicine and more.

02/13/09

Law | Health care | Science | Humanities | Community | Bioscience / Biotech | Social Science:  Law school hosts brain addiction conference

Legal and ethical perspectives on important scientific developments in the field of substance addiction will be explored during a free conference hosted by the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.

02/12/09

Bioscience / Biotech:  DNA 'nanotubes' spark interest

ASU researchers Hao Yan and Yan Liu are able to imagine and assemble intricate structures on a scale almost unfathomably small, using the double-helical DNA molecule.

02/11/09

Bioscience / Biotech:  Biological Physicist interviews Timothy Newman

A recent issue of the Biological Physicist published by the American Physical Society presents a special visit to the Center for Biological Physics at ASU and an interview with center director Timothy Newman.

01/21/09

Bioscience / Biotech:  Microbes in gut may hold key to obesity cause

A new study, featuring researchers from ASU, is suggesting that the composition of microbes within the gut may hold the key to a cause of obesity.