“If you have ovarian cancer, ask your oncologistto consider a test that will help determine whether your cancer is one of just under 50 per cent that might be responsive to new treatment options such as PARPinhibitors.” That’s the message from ovarian cancer researcher Professor Anna deFazio from The Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR)…
Researchers have identified over 5,700 new proteins in rice and are calling for a global effort to find the remaining missing proteins, in a new study co-authored by Macquarie University. The international team of scientists from Australia, Iran and Japan say there’s an estimated 35,000 proteins encoded by the rice genome, and yet we still…
A million year-old mating opens up an improved future A coming together and genetic merging of an American plant with an African or Asian plant one or two million years ago produced the ancestor of the bush that now provides 90% of the world’s commercial cotton. And although the resulting plant has been domesticated and…
The world’s favourite tree The world loves our eucalypts. Now Eucalyptus had become the world’s favourite tree for farming and today in Melbourne its genome is revealed at the International Botanical Congress. Other stories today include: a series of talks on how plants will respond to climate change; more on the future of wine and…
The world’s most farmed tree has had its genome read, opening the way to new breeding, biofuel, and conservation opportunities. The genome of one of Australia’s biggest Eucalyptus trees, the Flooded Gum or Eucalyptus grandis, has now been mapped, allowing scientists and conservationists an insight into the secrets of an important piece of Australiana.