Medical Alley(R)/MNBIO, the 21-year- old membership organization committed to promoting the medical sciences in Minnesota, declared the next step in its evolution Thursday by formally changing its name and refining its core focus to include the highly diverse ‘life sciences’. The name change to LifeScience Alley(TM) is designed to highlight the organization’s ever-expanding role in support of its work to help member organizations succeed, and comes as a result of the merger between Medical Alley and MNBIO in 2005.