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DNA testing direct to the public
As the range of DNA tests available expands, scientists and medical practitioners are concerned about laboratories advertising their services directly to the consumer via the internet.
[ + ]Bioprocessing conference
Australia's BioProcessing Network conference being held in October [ + ]
Stem cell lines specific to disease
US scientists create 20 disease-specific stem cell lines for global research use [ + ]
Pharma and academia - how opposites attract
They may have sneered at each other in the past, but collaborative efforts for translational research between academia and industry are happening, and they are working. [ + ]
Monash opens mAb centre
Monoclonal antibody facility opened at Monash Uni [ + ]
CRX08: The devil you try to know
The Clinical Research Excellence (CRX08) conference starts in Brisbane tomorrow. We talk flu pandemics with plenary speaker Anne Kelso. [ + ]
Online rheometry comes of age
Rheology Solutions will be manufacturing an online rheometer developed by CSIRO Industrial Physics. The process control rheometer can be operated in an inline or online configuration and used to measure the viscoelastic properties of a process fluid in real time.
[ + ]Weighing individual atoms and molecules
A nanoelectromechanical system that can function as a scale sensitive enough to measure the mass of a single atom of gold has been created.
[ + ]Research hotel for plant life
High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre launched in Canberra [ + ]
The gene, the clinic and the sex life of the dung beetle
The July/August 2008 issue of Australian Life Scientist is out now. [ + ]
Translating biomarkers by CRC
$130 million CRC for biomarker translation opened at La Trobe [ + ]
Combining clinical, laboratory and metabolic records with genomic data
An IT platform that can combine clinical, laboratory and metabolic information with high throughput genomic data about the same individual has been developed. By combining information in this way, researchers will be able to analyse the correlation between the gene expression profile in the blood of an individual and their risk of developing particular diseases.
[ + ]Genetic Technologies gets tough
GTG to enforce rights to BRCA patents [ + ]
ASM: Parasites sans frontiers
Professor Alan Cowman of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute will deliver the Rubbo Oration at this year's Australian Society of Microbiology (ASM) annual meeting, being held in Melbourne next week. [ + ]
ASM: Plasmodium's newest cousin
Dee Carter and her group have revitalised taxonomy in Australia as well as our understanding of the evolution of the Plasmodium species with the discovery of a long-lost cousin. And they came across it at the bottom of Sydney Harbour. [ + ]
