Published on behalf of Burness Communcations Authors call for overhaul of intellectual property laws worldwide Read about the report recommendations here OTTAWA – The world’s intellectual property system is broken, stopping lifesaving technologies from reaching the people who need them most in developed and developing countries, according to a report released in Ottawa today by…
View images here Read media release here Read about The University of Melbourne and University of Sydney public/student events here In a circular tunnel beneath the border of France and Switzerland, scientists will this Wednesday just after 6pm begin one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken. Half a world away, researchers in Melbourne…
And no, the world won’t end tomorrow View images here Read feature article on Australia and the Large Hadron Collider here Read about The University of Melbourne and University of Sydney public/student events here Just after 6pm today, Wednesday 10 September, the Large Hadron Collider will start up. Twenty years in the making, the A$6…
As Papua New Guinea Pushes for Payments for Forest Conservation, New Analysis Says Nation May Be Running Out of Forests to Protect Satellite Images Show that PNG is Rapidly Losing its Extensive Forest Cover, Under Pressure from Industrial Logging, Agricultural Expansion and Forest Fires
Yours will follow! Friday, 18 April 2008: available for interviews this morning. Today the co-discoverer of the double helix, James Watson, had his genome published in the journal Nature. His was the second genome published. The first cost billions. Watson’s genome cost just a few hundred thousand.
Genetics of climate change; new vaccines; how plants flower; the personal genome and other stories from the gene revolution. Also visit: Background information Fifty five years after Watson and Crick discovered DNA’s double helix and ten years after Australia’s national genome facility opened, how are genetics and genomics changing our lives? What will the next…
New vaccine rollout through the GAVI Alliance expected to help extinguish childhood killer Canberra, Australia — Papua New Guinea will begin immunising children this month with a vaccine that promises to rid the nation of Haemophilus Influenzae type b, or Hib disease, one of the deadliest causes of meningitis and pneumonia.
By Julian Lob-Levyt Poor nations can’t develop if their children and mothers aren’t healthy enough to make it to adulthood. And that’s a big sustainability issue for Australia’s closest neighbours, one that requires new approaches. Australia has an important role to play.
Also visit past grants: Mustering Molecules New grasses for a new climate Following the recent announcement of a NZ $3.8m grant package for the Australia New Zealand Biotechnology Partnering Fund (ANZBPF), applications for the 2008/09 fund are now open.
An Australia-New Zealand biotechnology partnership is creating a new kind of grass that will reduce cattle burps, improve productivity, and help dairy farmers prepare for climate change. The partnership will be assisted by a NZ$2 million grant announced by New Zealand Economic Development Minister Pete Hodgson last night.