This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about using your beach towel to charge your MP3 player; carrying brains […]
A compound produced by a pregnant lizard may provide important information on the origins and treatment of cancer in humans, according to zoologist Bridget Murphy from the University of Sydney, who discovered the protein, which is pivotal to the development of the lizard placenta.
People with diabetes invited to participate in trial Media release: Geelong, Friday 23 April 2010 Modern drugs can stabilise adult
Most vaccines need a ‘magic’ booster or adjuvant to boost our immune response to the vaccine. But the best adjuvants are too toxic for human use.
Now NZ scientists believe they have created a powerful and safe adjuvant and are trialling it as part of a new cancer vaccine.
How many viruses are there in your blood? How many dangerous nano-particles in your car exhaust?
qViro is a revolutionary New Zealand invention that offers the potential to quickly and cheaply answer these questions. It’s a feature of Ausbiotech – the national biotechnology conference – being held in Melbourne today.
The beta version is the size of a coffee grinder and can muster and count the number of viruses in a sample in minutes. This is a truly portable, desktop instrument that is powered from the USB drive of a computer.
Its competitors are the size of washing machines, may take days to get a result, or cost upwards of $50,000.
Ian Frazer Follow this link to Ian Frazer’s acceptance speech: http://www.uq.edu.au/news/?article=16238 Ian Frazer has created four vaccines to fight cervical
Carola Vinuesa Nature paper, child, Nature paper, child, Nature paper… Carola Vinuesa has had a busy few years. Her research
New vaccine rollout through the GAVI Alliance expected to help extinguish childhood killer Canberra, Australia — Papua New Guinea will
Jamie Rossjohn Proteins are the molecular machines of all life. Their shape is the key to understanding how they function,
