Industry News
Above and beyond DNA
After becoming an epigenetics convert four years ago at Lorne and winning the Eppendorf Young Investigator's Award there two years ago, Dr Jeff Craig returns to Lorne in 2008 as an invited speaker to present the fruits of his conversion. [ + ]
Identical twins not a true copy
Differences between identical twins are probably caused by copy number variations, and not environmental factors, researchers report. [ + ]
Individual expression
Peter Little went looking for coordinated changes in expression patterns in 755 genes in mice. He found them, and a whole lot more, as he told the Lorne Genome conference this week. [ + ]
Hubs in the human-pathogen protein landscape
Analysis of protein interactions show pathogens preferentially interact with hubs and bottlenecks. [ + ]
Sex differences in the brain's serotonin system
Long suspected, a Swedish team has shown that the serotonin system is different in men and women. [ + ]
Flight first, sound later
Fossil find suggests bats evolved the ability to fly before developing echolocation. [ + ]
Mapping the chromatin landscape
Frances Shannon tells the Lorne protein conference about the role of architectural proteins and how the packaging of DNA in the cell nucleus controls immune-related gene expression. [ + ]
Murphy moves up to the ministry
BioMelbourne Network CEO Tim Murphy appointed as senior advisor to new Innovation Minister. [ + ]
How red blood cells nuke their nuclei
MIT scientists model the enucleation of red blood cells in vitro. [ + ]
Molecular research paving the way
Physicists and engineers at Rice University have demonstrated a means of simultaneously making optical and electronic measurements of the same molecule, in a study that could lay the foundation for mass-produced single-molecule sensors.
[ + ]Watchful wait or vaccinate?
US researchers develop test vaccine that prevents development of prostate cancer in mice. [ + ]
Blobology and proteins' little helpers
One of the world's leading structural biologists, Helen Saibil, is bringing her knowledge -- and some spectacular images -- of molecular chaperones to the Lorne Protein conference. [ + ]
Bone healing with MSCs
Mesoblast announces good results from early phase trial in bone repair. [ + ]
Beamline on imaging and medical therapy
New centre for imaging and medical therapy being built at the Australian Synchrotron. [ + ]
Virtual-reality frog dissection
V-Frog, the world’s first virtual reality-based frog dissection software has been developed by Tactus Technologies, a project of the University at Buffalo Virtual Reality Laboratory. Designed for biology education, this software will allow observation and physically simulated dissection, and is supported by the Humane Society of the United States.
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