With the news of the successful creation of a functioning synthetic genome, the New Zealand Herald sums up some of […]
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Newsletter Digest: Synthetic cells, troubled teens and Interphone
Synthetic biology breakthrough Geneticist Dr Craig Venter was integral to the sequencing of the human genome. Now he claims to […]
Continue readingExperts on Craig Venter’s synthetic biology breakthrough
Scientists have for the first time created ‘synthetic cells’ that can survive and reproduce on their own. A team lead […]
Continue readingPODCAST: UPLoad 2010
On Tuesday night I was able to go and see UPLoad 2010. Titled ‘The Great Broadband Debate’, it covered (amongst […]
Continue readingSouthland Times: Think-tank creates cow twitter idea
Mark Hotton of the Southland Times writes about the idea, dreamt up by a think tank which explores the relationship […]
Continue readingDom Post: Capital gets unique carbon-dating machine
Kiran Chug writes in the Dominion Post about GNS’s new $3.4 million accelerator mass spectrometer, which will be used to […]
Continue readingODT: More science crumbs
An editorial in the Otago Daily Times discusses why, in terms of last week’s budget announcement for research, science and […]
Continue readingODT: Ozone changes predicted
NIWA scientists are predicting that New Zealand could face harmful levels of ozone in the winter months by year 2100. […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Where the wild things are
Alan Perrott writes in the New Zealand Herald about David Reubenheimer, a Kiwi nutritional ecologist who is travelling the world […]
Continue readingMobile phones and cancer risk – Interphone study
Increasing mobile phone use has led to public concern about possible cancer risks. The long-anticipated Interphone study is the largest, […]
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