Industry News
Plant and Animal Cell Biology
Monash University's Biological Sciences will be offering a course entitled `Molecular Genetic Techniques for Plant and Animal Cell Biology'. The course will be held from 27 November to 1 December 2000.
[ + ]Virtek Aquires Biotechnology Business of Engineering Services
Virtek Vision International announced that it has acquired the biotechnology business of Engineering Services Inc. (ESI), a robotics and automation company.
[ + ]Ulysses Records Solar Disturbance
Disturbed solar conditions will be observed by the European Space Agency's Ulysses spacecraft which is making its second reconnaissance six years after it's first pass over the sun's poles.
[ + ]Biology Centre Launched
The Centre of Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity was launched at Adelaide University. The Centre represents a joint research initiative between Adelaide University, the South Australian Museum and the Plant Biodiversity Centre's Department of Environment and Heritage.
[ + ]Junk Food Blamed For Some Asthma
Fast food is partly to blame for an increase in childhood asthma and other allergies, according to a study carried out in Saudi Arabia by a doctor from Aberdeen University, Scotland.
[ + ]Company Partnership
Merck and Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (Oceania) have formed a strategic alliance to provide the Australian chromatography market with chromatography consumables and instrumentation.
[ + ]Pheromones To Manage Pests
CSIRO research has reported that 90% of chemical insecticides have been eliminated from commercial orchards as commercial stone fruit growers use the pheromone method to disrupt the mating of insects.
[ + ]Adelaide Science Building At Leading Edge
A building which will support research and education in science, was opened at Adelaide University by Australian scientist Sir Gustav Nossal.
[ + ]Snail-Killing Flies
Researchers from the Central Queensland University (CQU) School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, have discovered what seems to be the first known case of flies that attack and kill marine snails. The discovery was made while a research project was being conducted in the Keppel Sands mangroves, north of the Tropic of Capricorn in Queensland.
[ + ]Preventing Rejection Of Anti-Cancer Drugs
Scientists at the University of Technology, Sydney have discovered important features of the structure of the molecule responsible for rejecting chemotherapy in up to 50% of cancer patients. Researchers have debunked previous notions of the structure of this molecule, called P-glycoprotein, in studies that has now been validated by research institutes in Europe and the USA.
[ + ]Australian Biotechnology Firm To Test New Drug
Progen Industries has announced the commencement of two new studies of its drug compound PI-88 in treating two major diseases, cancer and cardiovascular disease. The healthy volunteer studies have begun in England, and will be completed by early 2001.
[ + ]Water From The Sea
A greenhouse which uses sunlight to turn salt water into fresh water for growing vegetables or drinking purposes has been developed.
[ + ]Long-Haul Astronauts Risk Cosmic Cancer
Astronauts on an extended tour of duty aboard the international space station to be launched in November, face many dangers, including cancer, according to researchers at the UNSW School of Biochemistry.
[ + ]Biotechnology Company Announces Licensing Deal
New Zealand biotechnology company Genesis Research and Development have announced that a licensing deal with a US pharmaceutical firm for distribution rights to the PVAC psoriasis treatment, which is jointly owned by Genesis and Corixa, has been completed.
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