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Winning the 2008 NSW BioFirst Commercialisation award has come at exactly the right time for Special Phage Holdings, which has treated a patient in the clinic and is currently looking at a second round of private fundraising to develop its portfolio of bacteriophages

NuSep tries NxGen

02 October, 2008 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

NuSep to purchase NxGen for $25 million

Tracking down fusion events

25 September, 2008 by Kate McDonald

CSIRO and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research are working together on new image analysis techniques to reveal the secret lives of cells.

ComBio: DNA methylation is the queen bee’s knees

19 September, 2008 by Kate McDonald

In an elegant experiment published earlier this year, Ryszard Maleszka and his team at ANU showed that silencing a gene for DNA methylation in honey bees directly mimicked the effect of royal jelly on whether larvae go on to become queens or workers.

ComBio: Shadoo not a shadow of itself

19 September, 2008 by Kate McDonald

The Shadoo protein has generated much interest over the last five years as it is one of only three known members of the prion protein family.

ComBio: making and unmasking faces

18 September, 2008 by Fiona Wylie

Australian-trained scientist Dr Paul Trainor has made a career of making faces. In doing so, he hopes to uncover novel ways to prevent or treat congenital birth defects.

Stabilise membrane proteins

16 September, 2008 by External Press Release Author

The new MembraneMax Protein Expression Kits allow researchers to rapidly produce milligrams of soluble membrane proteins that are exceptionally easy to purify.

Qdot Western Blot kits

16 September, 2008 by External Press Release Author

With detection performance and ease-of-use that exceeds existing ECL-based methods, the WesternDot 625 kits make use of the extremely bright Qdot 625 streptavidin conjugate