Industry News
Keep it on, HIV+ people warned
Australian researchers urge HIV-positive people on antiretrovirals to continue practising safe sex [ + ]
Twin lasers improve precision measurement
The twin laser technology, developed by physicists from ANU and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris in the laboratories of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics at ANU, may dramatically improve precision measurement ranging from atomic to outer-space applications.
[ + ]Suspect protein promotes DNA repair
Caution against targeting HMGB1 protein in inflammation drug development [ + ]
Flu's up for Rockeby
Rockeby receives $252,000 worth of orders for bird flu test [ + ]
Eye and ear on bionics
Centre for bionics for NSW, international conference for Victoria [ + ]
More for AtCor
AtCor wins two more supply contracts for SphygmoCor, worth $1.66M [ + ]
GTG responds to BRCA row
Genetic Technologies responds to criticism over patent enforcement decision [ + ]
Freeze my puppies
Genetic Technologies acquires Frozen Puppies Dot Com [ + ]
Anadis begins trials for IBD
Israeli trial due for completion in 2009, commercialisation as nutritional to follow [ + ]
Progen abandons PI-88
Massive share price plunge as Progen abandons lead compound trial [ + ]
Pfizer Fellowships close soon
Applications for the Pfizer Australia Research Fellowships close on Monday [ + ]
Biotech summit approaches
The annual Australian Biotechnology Summit begins next week [ + ]
Smooth sailing for NeuroDiscovery
Phase I trial of neuropathic pain candidate successful [ + ]
$45 billion for Genentech
Roche offers to buy out remaining Genentech shares for A$45 billion [ + ]
Science, industry and government forge alliance against diseases
A new $30 million federal government-funded Cooperative Research Centre for Biomarker Translation (CRC-BT) has been launched at La Trobe University Research and Development Park. Core partners in the new CRC are La Trobe University and the Macfarlane Burnett Institute for Medical Research and Public Health in Melbourne; the Mater Medical Research Institute and Mater Health Services in Brisbane; and the Women & Children’s Health Research Institute and Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science in Adelaide. US-based biotechnology corporations Amgen and Becton Dickinson Biosciences are the commercial CRC-BT partners.
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