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Caspar the see-through fish
US scientists have engineered a transparent zebrafish - nicknamed Caspar - to view its internal organs and observe tumour metastasis and stem cell engraftment. [ + ]
Demand for more DNA testing resources and facilities
Forensic testing for the New South Wales Police Force has reached a point where it has become so popular that it is reaching beyond facility and resource capabilities.
[ + ]New era in scientific debate for Australia
Industries and sectors wait with baited breath for revolutionary new policies to be announced, increases in spending to be determined and any policies that the old government had planned can generally be assured of being tossed out the window
[ + ]More than just auditory cheesecake
Alan Harvey will discuss neurotrauma research, Cliff Richard and the role of music in the evolution of the modern mind at the ANS meeting this week. [ + ]
Marker for thymic stem cells identified
Scottish and Australian researchers have identified a protein marker for thymic and possibly pancreatic stem cells. [ + ]
How the Bindeez were busted
Biochemical geneticist Kevin Carpenter discusses how he helped tracked down the blip in the Bindeez beads. [ + ]
Opinion: The all-new adventures of Kev & Kim
It is with best wishes, an open mind and only a modicum of anxiety that we welcome the new era that swept Australia last November 24, when our collective soul dared to tear itself gently but firmly from the grasp of the elderly gentleman in the Wallabies tracksuit and hitch itself to the Kevin07 bandwagon. [ + ]
The man in the bat
The January/February 2008 issue of Australian Life Scientist is out now. [ + ]
Tracking down HIV propagation
Genomic screen nets hundreds of human proteins exploited by HIV [ + ]
Ultra-fast fibre lasers, dopey photons... what's next?
When lasers were developed in the 1960s, they were a solution looking for a problem to solve. Since then, they have become an essential tool in industries as diverse as nanotechnology and biomedicine
[ + ]Technology trends for 2008
Technology Futures claims that 2008 will be a dynamic year impacted by possible actions such as potential financial instability including, recession, changes in the geopolitical environment, and further changes to the landscape of business
[ + ]Sex sells sea shells
Detachable penises, fish that become mere blobs of testicles, elephant seals who like to be squashed in the act of love - it's all in a day's work for aquatic scientist Sheree Marris. [ + ]
Global view of gene expression analysis
It is now believed that more than 60 per cent of genes are alternatively spliced, a final nail in the coffin, if it needed one, of the one-gene-one-protein hypothesis. [ + ]
High-throughput sequencing challenges microarray turf
A new dimension to commercial next-generation sequencing applications - one that could potentially pose a threat to more-established microarray technologies - has been revealed in two recent papers. [ + ]
Could lithium medicine prolong your life?
The common mood-affecting drug, lithium, could double as an anti-ageing medication, according to a recent study in the online version of the Journal of Biological Chemistry
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