Modified viruses bring malaria vaccine hope
29 August, 2008
An international collaboration of researchers has created a promising malaria vaccine based on pox and cold viruses.
DNA testing direct to the public
14 August, 2008 by Kylie Wilson-Field
As the range of DNA tests available expands, scientists and medical practitioners are concerned about laboratories advertising their services directly to the consumer via the internet.
CRC review released
05 August, 2008
A review of Australia's Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program and its significant contribution to Australia’s National Innovation System has been released.
Bugs that eat cancer-causers
04 August, 2008
A CRC CARE and the University of South Australia scientist has identified native Australian soil bacteria which destroy benzene, toluene, ethyl-benzene and xylene in groundwater contaminated by petroleum and oil spills.
Weighing individual atoms and molecules
04 August, 2008
A nanoelectromechanical system that can function as a scale sensitive enough to measure the mass of a single atom of gold has been created.
Water analysis solutions
01 August, 2008 | Supplied by: Keysight Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
Agilent Technologies has launched a water analysis solutions website at www.agilent.com/chem/australianwater.
US market forecast for stem cell technology
01 August, 2008
Market research indicates that the market for stem cell technologies will grow dramatically in the next four years.
Ancient DNA and the KFC gene
30 July, 2008
Researchers at the Universities of Adelaide and Sydney have used the prevelance of the 'KFC' gene to try to establish the migration history of the chicken.
Science, industry and government forge alliance against diseases
22 July, 2008
A new $30 million federal government-funded Cooperative Research Centre for Biomarker Translation (CRC-BT) has been launched at La Trobe University Research and Development Park. Core partners in the new CRC are La Trobe University and the Macfarlane Burnett Institute for Medical Research and Public Health in Melbourne; the Mater Medical Research Institute and Mater Health Services in Brisbane; and the Women & Children’s Health Research Institute and Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science in Adelaide. US-based biotechnology corporations Amgen and Becton Dickinson Biosciences are the commercial CRC-BT partners.
Using MS to identify dinosaur fossils proteins
18 July, 2008
Fossilomics research is being facilitated by the sensitivity, mass accuracy and resolution of modern mass spectrometry.
Combining clinical, laboratory and metabolic records with genomic data
16 July, 2008
An IT platform that can combine clinical, laboratory and metabolic information with high throughput genomic data about the same individual has been developed. By combining information in this way, researchers will be able to analyse the correlation between the gene expression profile in the blood of an individual and their risk of developing particular diseases.
Carbon nanotubes and nanoelectronics
15 July, 2008
Next generation of nanoelectronics could be based on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and the intramolecular junctions that connect CNTs for integration.
Relative success for autism gene hunt
11 July, 2008
Researchers have used larger families to identify some genes associated with autism.
Opening the Curtin on the beginning of life
03 July, 2008
A Curtin University discovery challenges fundamental understanding of the processes active in the early history of the Earth. It suggests that life may well have appeared on Earth long before the period of heavy-meteorite bombardment believed by some to have initiated the emergence of life on Earth.
Electrostatic detection technique for DNA and RNA microarrays
03 July, 2008
Dispersing a fluid containing thousands of electrically charged microscopic silica beads across the surface of a DNA microarray and then observing the Brownian motion of the spheres provides measurements of the electrical charges of the DNA molecules. These measurements can be observed and recorded with a simple handheld imaging device and used to interrogate millions of DNA sequences at a time.
