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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.
[ + ]Life fellows elected to AAS
10 life scientists become fellows of the AAS. [ + ]
From bench to bedside for cancer
New cancer conference emphasising translational research will be held in Sydney in July. [ + ]
Academy of Science members announced
Seventeen of Australia’s leading scientists have been chosen to join the Australian Academy of Science.
[ + ]Megabats, microbats and the most interesting gene in the genome
Graeme O'Neill has been writing about science for almost 30 years and along the way he's developed a couple of favourite stories. One is the evolution of fruit bats, recounted in our last issue, and the other is the role of FOXP2, sometimes called the Chomsky Gene. In a sublime twist, the two stories have merged together. [ + ]
Bioscience fund joins the IIF program
The Brandon Bioscience Fund from Brandon Capital Partners has been chosen as the 11th fund to be fully licensed to operate under the Australian Government’s Innovation Investment Fund (IIF) Program.
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