Articles
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 [ + ]
Diagnosing cancers of unknown primaries
Circadian, Healthscope and Peter Mac collaborate on new diagnostic [ + ]
Provisional patent for weight loss compound
HealthLinx and Dairy Australia find dairy-derived protein with adipogenic activity [ + ]
Hilton heads WEHI
Doug Hilton the new director of WEHI [ + ]
Snurps join RNAi toolkit
Synthetic adaptors provide snRNP-based gene silencing [ + ]
Bridging the gap in fluorescence microscopy
CSIRO researchers develop new technique for nanometer-scale microscopy [ + ]
Sodium channel modulators
New BDNF proteins and antibodies for working with growth and differentiation factors in neuronal cultures [ + ]
In vivo RNAi delivery
Invitrogen has launched its Invivofectamine delivery reagent, which enables siRNA experiments in vivo [ + ]
Metabolomics marks out prostate cancer
Sarcosine a potential biomarker for prostate cancer progression [ + ]
The Neanderthals cometh
Svante Paabo and co have completed a rough draft of the Neanderthal genome [ + ]
Lorne 2009: Shedding light on tissue engineering
Next time you have a nasty lab or iPhone accident, forget the band-aids. Just reach for your CSIRO PhotoSeal and a torch, and hey presto, new skin or blood vessels. [ + ]
