Industry News
The missing links in insulin action
Who would have thought that Chinese vegies, phosphopeptides and stressed mitochondria might advance the treatment of type 2 diabetes? [ + ]
Hedgehog and the need for speed
Model organisms such as zebrafish are vitally important in answering basic questions of developmental cell biology and signalling, and those built for distance and not speed may just have a few more prickles. [ + ]
PM's prize scientists
Nominations for the Prime Minister's prizes for science close on May 9. [ + ]
Mathematical model offers smarter way to understand how information travels In cells
Hunting cellular biology in the Hunter
ALS previews the Hunter Cellular Biology Meeting, which starts tomorrow. [ + ]
Schizophrenia and copy numbers
Copy number variations are much more frequent in people with schizophrenia. [ + ]
Scientists characterise Buruli ulcer bacterium
Mycobacterium ulcerans, which causes devastating ulcerous disease, isolated and fully characterised. [ + ]
BORIS, leukaemia and John Rasko
The New Directions in Leukaemia Research Conference starts next week and will feature John Rasko and two zinc finger transcription factors called BORIS and CTCF. [ + ]
Hunt is on for chief scientist
Full-time chief scientist sought by Federal Government. [ + ]
The first hominin of Europe
Spanish paleoanthropologists say a jawbone found last year is from the oldest known hominin in western Europe. [ + ]
Living fossil still calls Australia home
Fossil bones of the Djarthia, our earliest known marsupial, have been linked to South America's extant Monito del Monte. [ + ]
Two advance to BIO
Two local scientists are off to the BIO convention in June after winning the Advance BioBusiness award. [ + ]
New type of vision found in shrimp
Mantis shrimp can perceive circular polarised light and may use it for sexual signalling. [ + ]
Centralised database for human protein data
Scientists now have access to a centralised knowledge base for international protein data, with the launch of the Human Proteinpedia (www.humanproteinpedia.org) website this month.
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