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Asia gets serious about bio-IT
Great strides made in the areas of genomics, proteomics and other key features across the developing biotech landscape have dramatically altered the playing field for bioinformatics groups Asia is now expected to realize a massive surge in demand for IT systems as the region races to catch up with the rest of the world. [ + ]
Thermometric titrimetry puts heat back into the titration game
Thermometric titrimetry is versatile, robust, fast and reliable, ideally suited to the demands of modern process and quality control laboratories
[ + ]Finding new meaning in microscope images
A team of computer scientists working with cell biologists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has created BioSig, a web-based bioinformatic system that links collections of microscope images to a wide variety of quantitative experimental data
[ + ]Devices of industry
Outside the industry, the words 'Australian biotechnology' immediately conjure up three names in particular -- CSL, Cochlear and ResMed. The irony is that none of these companies is strictly a biotechnology company. [ + ]
Biotech breathes life into ethanol R&D
Oil prices are again pushing $US30 a barrel, glaciers are melting, and cuckoos are announcing spring in Europe's woodlands some 16 days earlier than they did half a century ago. And not for the first time since the OPEC-engineered oil supply crisis of the mid-1970s, an Australian government is talking up the need to develop a local fuel ethanol industry. [ + ]
Parliamentary debate continues on stem cells
Behind the headlines, hype and huff-and-puff politics surrounding the therapeutic use of stem cells, there is fierce debate even among the experts over which research route holds the greater promise: adult, or embryonic? [ + ]
Smelling a rat
Trapped in the political crossfire of the stem cell debate, biotech industry icon Prof Alan Trounson has taken some heavy hits. [ + ]
Thinking big? Think US, advises new Biota chief
The single most important thing an Australian biotechnology company can do to increase its chances of success, according to new Biota Holdings CEO Peter Molloy, is to be on the ground in the US. [ + ]
CAREERS SPECIAL: Digging for talent
Australia's growing biotech industry has sparked recruitment sector interest. Pete Young surveys the scene [ + ]
CAREER SPECIAL: Risk and reward
Graeme O'Neill reports on the hiring challenges faced by small-to-medium Australian biotechs [ + ]
CAREER SPECIAL: The biotech gold rush
The biotech gold rush is creating huge demand for people with many strings to their bow, as Graeme O'Neill discovers [ + ]
CAREERS SPECIAL: Keeping the pace
Australia's biotech industry is flourishing and the jobs are definitely out there, reports Graeme O'Neill [ + ]
Two-for-one gastric research result - plus a bonus
Take one gene, introduce two different mutations, and reproduce the symptoms of two major diseases of the digestive tract: gastric cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. And in addition to that two-for-one result, Assoc Prof Andy Giraud of Melbourne University (Western Hospital) and Dr Matthias Ernst of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have convicted a suspect gene that their US and Japanese peers had previously exonerated. [ + ]
Bio-septic system offers relief for the effluent society
Out of sight, out of mind, and far too often, out of order - that malodorous monster, the septic tank, lurks just below the ground in the back yards of more than 450,000 homes around Australia's eastern seaboard, from Queensland to Victoria. Another 200,000 households around New Zealand are unsewered. [ + ]
The other Big Australian
As Australia's biggest public research institution, CSIRO occupies a unique niche. Employing 6500 people, the organisation has a huge diversity of scientific skills to apply to Australia's industries. [ + ]