Marnie Blewitt The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne Marnie Blewitt wants to know how a human being is made: how does a single fertilised egg develop into an adult with millions of cells performing a myriad of different functions. It’s the hottest issue in genetics, and one that’s close to her…
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…
Australian scientists have used genome analysis tools to create a patented technology to investigate the fate of the laser beams zapping through the optical fibres that connect our cities. Their ideas have broken the back of a communications industry problem – how to identify the causes of noise in these optical cables that form a…
Media release from award presentation – 24 October 2007 Past Winners of the Genetics Prize Other Peter Gruber Foundation Prizes
Peter Waterhouse and Ming-Bo Wang The human genome project found we have around 32,000 genes—only a few more than other animals, insects and most plants. Knowing how those genes are turned on and off is a key to understanding how a few thousand genes interact to create a human, a fly or a wheat plant.