A new study could help explain why some women with HPV develop cervical cancers while others do not.
The research suggests healthy vaginal microbes correspond to reduced risk of cervical cancer.
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Arizona Study Links HPV, Cervical Cancer to Vaginal Microbes
‘Tis the season for 110-degree days, excessive-heat warnings and trolling the parking lot for a shady spot. But new research suggests those in the shade might not have it made after all — especially if they are young children.
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For Children In Cars, Shade Offers Little Protection From Lethal Heat
Every great investigator tells a story about the one that got away.
For Kimberly Kobojek, director of the forensic science program at Arizona State University’s West campus, formerly of the Phoenix Police Crime Lab, that white whale was a reddish brown stain.
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Forensic Science Education at ASU: a Peek Behind the Police Tape
NASA has selected its 2018 crop of small businesses to receive funding supporting innovation research and technology transfer, with seven awards going to Arizona.
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contracts, which total $43.5 million nationally among 348 awardees, support projects that promise to benefit both NASA’s mission and the U.S. economy.
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Seven Arizona Small Businesses Receive NASA Funding
Everything – drugs included – sooner or later travels the sewers.
So Tempe and ASU plan to study wastewater as part of a public health effort to identify substance abuse hotspots and evaluate efforts to reduce opioid prescriptions.
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Tempe Partners With ASU to Detect Drugs in Wastewater
