Qiagen QuantiFERON Monitor for tracking immune function in solid organ transplant patients
29 January, 2015Qiagen has announced the QuantiFERON Monitor (QFM), a novel diagnostic for monitoring immune function. It is available in non-European markets for research use as an accurate marker of immune function in studies of immunosuppressive conditions, immune modulating therapies and recovery following transplantation.
Why do young people have strokes?
28 January, 2015Researchers from The Centenary Institute, Sydney, have announced a breakthrough in understanding the cause of stroke in young people. The leader of the research, Dr Xiangjian Zheng, said the stroke in question affects around five in every 1000 people, many of whom are diagnosed in their 30s and 40s.
Next-gen sequencing reveals climate change adaptation
27 January, 2015US biologists have proposed next-generation sequencing (NGS) as a way to provide fresh insight into populations' responses to a changing world. NGS, which makes it possible to analyse enormous numbers of short pieces of DNA very quickly, allows environmental biologists to assess the presence or absence of certain gene variants within local populations - which could point to selection for certain climate-adapted traits.
Cosmic radio waves caught in real time
22 January, 2015 by Lauren DavisSwinburne University of Technology PhD student Emily Petroff has become the first person to observe a 'fast radio burst' - a short, bright flash of radio waves from an unknown source - happening live.
Boehringer Ingelheim collaborates on cancer and immunotherapy research
15 January, 2015German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim this week announced research collaborations with Vanderbilt and Yale universities in order to develop treatments for cancer and other diseases.
Regulatory registration of Qiagen lung cancer companion diagnostic
14 January, 2015Qiagen has announced the CE-IVD marking of its liquid biopsy-based companion diagnostic that analyses circulating nucleic acids obtained from blood samples to assess a genomic mutation in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Simulating the power of bubbles
07 January, 2015Researchers have used the most powerful computer in Japan to explore a process observed in both bubbly beverages as well as scientific systems including spin systems, foams and metallic alloys.
RV Investigator welcomed to port
17 December, 2014 by Lauren DavisThe research vessel Investigator was officially commissioned into service on Friday by Minister for Industry Ian Macfarlane. At a welcome-to-port ceremony, held on the CSIRO Wharf at Battery Point, Hobart, the vessel was handed over from CSIRO to the Marine National Facility for operation.
OK, as we suspected - men really are idiots
15 December, 2014Males are more likely to be admitted to an emergency department after accidential injuries, more likely to be admitted with a sporting injury and more likely to be involved in a fatal road traffic collision. Put simply, men are more likely to be idiots.
Identification of a pre-cancerous state in the blood
10 December, 2014US researchers have uncovered a 'pre-malignant' state in the blood that significantly increases the likelihood that an individual will develop blood cancers such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myelodysplastic syndrome.
CRC to manage space debris
03 December, 2014Following the receipt of $19.8 million in government funding, the CRC for Space Environment Management will bring together experts from around the world to look at ways to protect around 3000 operational satellites from space debris.
The constants are still constant
01 December, 2014Researchers have improved the constraints on time-variation of fundamental constants by making measurements of two optical clock transitions in the same atom (ytterbium). Their experiments have shown that one essential fundamental constant - the mass ratio of protons to electrons - can have changed only by a maximum of one part in a million over the age of our solar system.
Coin-sized device could detect gravitational waves
01 December, 2014Physicists from The University of Western Australia have invented a tiny detector, about the size of a coin, which they claim could observe gravitational waves - ripples in space-time generated by accelerating massive objects.
Did gravity save the universe after the Big Bang?
19 November, 2014European physicists have put forward an explanation as to why the universe did not collapse immediately after the Big Bang. Their theory follows studies which suggest that the production of Higgs particles during the accelerating expansion of the very early universe (inflation) should have led to instability and collapse.
A meeting of the minds
13 November, 2014 by Lauren DavisAn international research collaboration has built a pathway that makes brain-to-brain communication possible - with a little help from the internet.
