Earlier this month, the Arizona Game and Fish Department donated 12 archery bows and other archery equipment to the physical education department at Wilson K-8 School.

In its new Tucson research and development center, Sanofi-aventis stores the "Tucson Collection" of chemical compounds.

At the Sanofi-aventis Tucson Research Center in Oro Valley, chemists work with very small quantities of substance, in the sums of milligrams and microns.

Results from as yet unpublished studies are beginning to shed light on the extent and possible effects of trace amounts of antibiotics, synthetic hormones and other pharmaceuticals and chemicals that are leaching from effluent flowing in the Santa Cruz River into ground water in and around Marana.

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In a large new laboratory at the Sanofi-aventis Research Center in Oro Valley, chemist Mark Drew, Ph.D., eyed a round-bottom flask filled with a red-speckled, brown material.

(NAPSI)—It could be a healthy idea to take a new look at an old spice.

(NAPSI)—When most people think about longevity, they don’t usually think about the immune system. Without the ability to fight off infections and abnormal cells, however, they wouldn’t live very long. This is where the reishi mushroom comes into play.

Sanofi-aventis' acquisition of the pharmaceutical development company that began as Selectide is "coincident with the technology, essentially, coming of age," according to Tucson Research Center scientific director Ken Wertman.

Christopher Wuensch, CWuensch@ExplorerNews.com

Archery has come a long way in over 100 years.

For a charming plant that produces cheerful daisy-like flowers all winter long, and, to top it off is useful and animal resistant, try growing some chamomile. 

In a room on the second floor of the Sanofi-aventis research center in Oro Valley, a yellow industrial robotic arm sits at the center of a circle, surrounded by scientific instruments.

(NewsUSA) - According to the ever popular Dr. Oz show on Fox 5, two of the newest ways to shed pounds and maintain a healthy weight are entirely all natural -- green coffee bean extract and raspberry ketone.

A Pima County Superior Court judge yesterday acquitted two people accused of dog fighting.