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Autogen promises free access to gene search tool

09 December, 2002 by Melissa Trudinger

A bioinformatics tool developed by Melbourne company Autogen to search public domain gene databases for specific genes of interest will be made available to academic researchers for free.


Funding the festival

05 December, 2002 by Graeme O'Neill

The land of the red 'roo is a long hop from just about everywhere else in the world, so travel costs loomed large in Dr Phil Batterham's analysis of the cost of staging the world's largest genefest in Melbourne next year.


Genetic Technologies chief defends Myriad deal

03 December, 2002 by Melissa Trudinger

Genetic Technologies' executive chairman Dr Mervyn Jacobson is surprised and disappointed by recent criticism of the deal he brokered with US genetic testing giant Myriad Genetics.


INTERVIEW: A Graves future for the marsupial genome

27 November, 2002 by Graeme O'Neill

The world now has detailed gene catalogues, maps and DNA sequences for two distantly related eutherian mammals: the mouse, Mus musculus, a rodent, and a large-brained African primate, Homo sapiens. Where to now? Prof Jenny Graves believes that, to achieve the maximum yield about the deep genetic history of the world's mammals, it should be a marsupial -- specifically, a kangaroo.


Laws of uncertainty

19 November, 2002 by David Binning

While scientific discovery is often regarded as absolute, the rules of law seem much more fluid, governed by a mish-mash of regulations and precedents across myriad jurisdictions ensuring that even success in gaining patents or defending intellectual property in court is no long-term guarantee in biotech.


Bio21 ramps up

18 November, 2002 by Melissa Trudinger

Melbourne's Bio21 project looks to be back on track with a restructured board, a newly approved business plan and orders in for some key new equipment.


INTERVIEW: Seven days in July

14 November, 2002 by Graeme O'Neill

Next year, 2003 marks the 50th anniversary of an epochal moment in human history: Watson and Crick's solving of the double-helix structure of the DNA molecule. It's also the year that will bring many of the biggest names in world genetics to Melbourne for the 19th International Genetics Congress, among them at least three Nobel laureates, including James Watson, co-discoverer of the immortal coil, and an immortal of modern science in his own lifetime.


Biotech looks for bipolar genes

12 November, 2002 by Graeme O'Neill

Geneticists have nothing to show after more than a decade hunting for genes involved in bipolar disorder, or manic depression -- even in depression-haunted families in Iceland, and among Pennsylvania's Amish, the quarry has remained elusive. But a Sydney research team believes it may have cornered a gene that causes susceptibility to manic depression that could provide the long-sought entry point into the biochemical maze underlying the disorder.


Guiding the rudder of bio-IT research

11 November, 2002 by Melissa Trudinger

Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) and the University of Melbourne are working on a project they hope will result in clear experimental guidelines and methods for mathematical analysis for microarrays.


Benitec aims to boost investor confidence

11 November, 2002 by Pete Young

Gene silencing company Benitec is treating its de-listing by the Australian Stock Exchange as an administrative hiccup but the incident comes at an awkward time for the young biotech.


Desperately seeking storage

06 November, 2002 by Pete Young

At a Sydney conference last month, Kerri Hartland, the executive general manager of Commonwealth government agency Biotechnology Australia, revealed the results of a poll which asked Australian biotechs what they thought were their biggest challenges.


Proteomics feature: The new biodiversity

04 November, 2002 by Graeme O'Neill

What began as a trickle of new genes in the late 1970s has become a flood, as genomics projects deliver new genetic maps, huge catalogues of genes, and a ticker-tape blizzard of DNA sequences almost every other week.


Fed grants back European links

04 November, 2002 by Melissa Trudinger

Thirty Australian scientists will be going to Europe to undertake collaborative research, courtesy of the Federal government.


Solving genomics database problem could save years of research

01 November, 2002 by Pete Young

Solutions to the Tower of Babel annotation problem that haunts genomics databases are showing they can shave "several years" off the drug discovery process according to a leading US bioinformatics worker.


IBM makes bio-IT research agreement with IMB

31 October, 2002 by Pete Young

IBM has forged a multimillion dollar research pact with the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) which promises a great leap forward for Australia's bioinformatics sector.


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