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Building a heart that mimics nature’s lub-dub may be as comically shortsighted as Leonardo da Vinci designing a flying machine with flapping wings. The foresight of a NASA Engineer David Saucier and Dr. Michael DeBakey has led to the NO Pulse Heart. Two tiny pumps, mimicking the left and right ventricles supply continuous blood supply [...]

Home Sales In Tucson Up 14% Sales of existing homes in the Tucson market rose nearly 14 percent in 2011, with 13,418 sold, according to the latest figures from the Tucson Association of Realtors Multiple Listing Service. But sales remain far below their peak of over 18,000 sold in 2005, and the average sales price [...]

Oro Valley bioscience expanding: Ventana Medical Systems doubled its acreage in Innovation Park, Oro Valley  Bioscience Jobs In Arizona

Anthem Equity Group sponsors the Innovation Campus for bioscience research and development companies, emerging technology businesses, medical-device manufacturers and suppliers to those industries. Innovation Campus sits next to Innovation Park in Oro Valley, Arizona where Sanofi-Aventis and Ventana Medical Systems already have facilities.

SynCardia has been nominated for one of the most prestigious awards in the European Medical Device industry. SynCardia has been shortlisted for its wearable and portable Total Artificial Heart Driver…..that allows patients the “Freedom” to go home and live a more normal life. The Awards continue as SynCardia is selected as a Finalist for the [...]

Business and marketing communications franchisor AlphaGraphics Inc., formerly owned by the UK-based G A Pindar & Son, has been purchased by an affiliate of Maryland-based private equity fund Blackstreet Capital Partners II.

A California-based private equity fund plans to invest $250MM into a company that buys foreclosed homes at discounts. The fund hopes to expand their investment up to $1B in the next few years. The fund Manager says “They seem to be getting the kinds of yields we need for our investors.”

With a rental vacancy rate of 15.9% and a homeowner vacancy rate of 6.8%, CNBC has named Tucson the #1 Emptiest City in the United States.

SynCardia Systems, manufacturer of the only total artificial heart approved by regulatory agencies in the U.S., Canada and Europe, announces that sales have nearly doubled for the second straight year. Sales in 2010 doubled over 2009. SynCardia ended 2011 as another double. 2012 is projected as a break-out year. 2012 1-04 – SynCardia Nearly Doubles Sales [...]

The Tucson housing market has fallen dramatically since 2006. Today, 1 in 3 Tucson homes sell for under $100,000. The decline is unprecedented.