Sarah Moyes writes in the East & Bays Courier about neuroscientist Bronwen Connor, who is researching adult stem cells in […]
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TVNZ/One News/Closeup: Warning over the danger of GPS devices
An Australian researcher believes that using GPS devices in cars can be as dangerous as using mobile phones. Professor Mark […]
Continue readingTNVZ/One News: Cautious response to meningococcal breakthrough
British research has revealed a genetic basis to peoples’ susceptibility to meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia – Meningococcal B cases have […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Ocean dwellers miss the census
Geoff Cumming writes in the New Zealand Herald about a recent report which says that, at a time when our […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: An eye on marine life
New Zealand scientists have been involved in a 10-year long census of the ocean’s biodiversity, which found that most marine […]
Continue readingNZ Farmers Weekly: Warmer, drier and more floods
Annette Scott writes in the New Zealand Farmers Weekly about the effects climate change is expected to have on New […]
Continue readingWairarapa News: Farmer creates own smartphone application
Piers Fuller writes in the Wairarapa News about a farmer who has developed a smartphone application – IFarmer – designed […]
Continue readingDom Post: Fish skin nano-fibres power Revolution
Peter Kerr writes in the Dominion Post about work by a company who says they can turn discarded hoki skins […]
Continue readingMedia coverage: swine flu
Following the outbreak of a highly infectious virus (now confirmed as swine flu) in the Wairarapa in the last few […]
Continue readingODT/NZPA: NZ research targets lungs for hookworm immunity
Researchers at the Malaghan Institute (Wellington) have made a discovery which could hasten the development of a vaccine for hookworm. […]
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