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New solutions save time and money
Experts are forecasting continued growth for the analytical and laboratory equipment industry despite the worldwide economic crisis and current stagnation in the chemical industry.
[ + ]Should genes be patented?
Debate on gene patenting continues at Melbourne seminar [ + ]
Australia targets the pancreas
Pancreatic cancer our target in international cancer genome consortium [ + ]
Long-term diabetes reversal with genetic switch
Transcription factor nudges hepatic stem cells into insulin-producing cells in mice [ + ]
Directing stem cells down the pancreatic line
Molecule can direct the differentiation of embryonic stem cells to pancreatic lineage [ + ]
Kookaburra beams on ANSTO
ANSTO to build neutron beam instrument called Kookaburra [ + ]
Italy and Japan for Fermiscan
Hitachi Chemical takes option on Fermiscan licence, Italy look promising [ + ]
Chloroquine inhibits Hendra virus: study
Common malaria drug chloroquine an effective inhibitor of Hendra and Nipah viruses [ + ]
Polartechnics moves into Pakistan
Pakistan government orders cervical cancer screen [ + ]
Chicken factor for Genavia
NZ biotech buys chicken egg technology for Factor VIII [ + ]
Muscles find their stem cell niche
Researchers have succeeded in growing new muscle fibres using stem cells [ + ]
Stem Cell Sciences goes US
SCS, part based in Melbourne, to be sold to US stem cell company [ + ]
Universal influenza virus vaccine becoming a reality
The Holy Grail of influenza vaccinology — the development of a durable and cross-protective universal influenza virus vaccine — may be within grasp.
[ + ]Money needed in the bucket, not fun
Scientists need to live as well as enjoy their subject and one reader questions whether it's a lack of remuneration rather than a lack of enjoyment that is making students turn away from science at university.
[ + ]PET project for ANSTO
ANSTO in PET collaboration with Cambridge, gets new CEO [ + ]