Alternative Medicine

Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland, which hopes to make a decision in a matter of weeks on an electronic medical record vendor, has received a $428,000 two-year grant from the Department of Defense.

Ink-jet printer technology could help Solidus Biosciences Inc. take animals out of cosmetics trials and save drug companies millions of dollars.

A glimpse of San Francisco’s biotech future is tucked among printing, papermaking and photography firms in a gritty-looking former cannery less than a mile from the gleaming structures of Mission Bay.

With nearly 4,000 clinical trials being conducted in Arizona, the need for oversight and patient safety is at an all-time high.

According to Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap, commissioned and coordinated by the Flinn Foundation, the state needs to focus on four strategies to develop a strong bioscience hub. Here is an update on how the Valley has fared with those strategies since the July report: