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Carbon dating early Buddhist texts
ANSTO carbon dating tests of rare manuscripts dubbed the 'Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism' have confirmed the priceless texts are from the first and fifth centuries AD and could be the missing link in Buddhist history.
[ + ]The next generation in sequencing is SOLiD
Applied Biosystems hopes to introduce a brand new technology for DNA sequencing to the global market next year. [ + ]
Flipping over a molecular mousetrap
ANU researchers have uncovered a neat little system to stop DNA replication in its tracks. [ + ]
A bridge over troubled waters
Could an on-the-fly gene repair process prolong the lives of boys with the devastating X-linked muscular disorder Duchenne muscular dystrophy? [ + ]
Ian Frazer's patent problem
Just as the HPV vaccine Gardasil receives FDA approval, an argument has broken out between the researchers involved in the vaccine's development. So who patented what? [ + ]
Chromosome 1: the biography
An annotated DNA sequence for human chromosome 1 was published in Nature in May. Graeme O'Neill takes a time-travelling tour of the big one. [ + ]
Protein partners and neural transmission
The discovery of an important partnership between two proteins in the neuron holds out great hope for treating epilepsy. [ + ]
Medsaic sets out to capture research sector
A novel cell capture array technology invented in Australia promises to offer the life science sector a major boost in protein research. [ + ]
Human Variome project gets underway
The international Human Variome Project is up and running following a highly successful first meeting in Melbourne in June. [ + ]
A pox on Hox
Hox genes - long thought to define the body plans of all animals - are not used by corals. [ + ]
Seek and destroy mission for molecular assassin
An experimental drug designed to seek out and destroy a gene associated with vascular disease is providing effective in early animal trials. [ + ]
Hunting the source of renewable oocytes
Female mammals may continue to proudce eggs throughout puberty and adulthood. [ + ]
Quantum dots pose minimal impact to cells
Nano-sized fluorescent probes that can slip inside living cells and clarify life’s most fundamental processes, or track the effectiveness of cancer-fighting drugs, are barely noticed by the cells they enter, according to a team of researchers led by the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
[ + ]Molecular DNA switch found to be the same for all life
The molecular machinery that starts the process by which a biological cell divides into two identical daughter cells apparently worked so well early on that evolution has conserved it across the eons in all forms of life on Earth.
[ + ]Viral invasion of the koala genome
University of Queensland researchers may have discovered why the koala is susceptible to certain infections and cancers.
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