How can you build a computer in a cell, or a group of cells? Nature did it, and the brain is one result. Engineers who know some biology might also find a way.
At the UA, Pierre Deymier is giving it a try. In a major breakthrough in bioengineering, he uses tools he finds within living cells, mainly special kinds of proteins, and turns the proteins into hardware. He calls them Proteoware. 'It's my own word,' he says. 'I don't know if it will catch on.'
Carol Barnes has been shaking up brain-related research for nearly 30 years, and she has lots more on her agenda. When she jumped into the neuroscience field—or was drawn in, actually—in 1971, it was much smaller, attracted a fraction of the billions in current annual funding and lacked the new sense of national urgency.
Early detection is the single most important factor in cancer survival. That's why regular checkups and early testing are so necessary.
In the new biology, it’s not about the mountains of numbers, says Dean Billheimer, it’s whether they mean exactly what you think they mean.
Dig deep into lung diseases, beyond the classic causes like cigarettes and working in a coal mine, and you'll come upon a few ancient hazards always in our air, water and dirt.
After a scorpion stings your bare foot (Ouch!), venom quickly takes. And no one in the world of bioscience can feel your pain like Leslie Boyer.
From grade school, we learned in biology how we inherit blue or brown eyes. Simple as A B C. It's that blue or brown-eyes gene, part of a recipe called DNA in our cells.
Fane arrived at The University of Arizona (UA) with a collection or viruses assembled at the University of Arkansas and the University of California, San Diego. Now a professor in the UA Department of Plant Sciences and a BIO5 member, he began new experiments on the complex, four-billion-year-old life story of the virus.
Turmeric, a relative of the ginger plant, has been grown and processed for centuries as a dye and as a flavoring for foods such as curries. The underground stem, or rhizome, of the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa) also has been used to treat a wide range of medical conditions, ranging from indigestion to arthritis to gallstones and even some forms of cancer.