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A new paper has just been published in Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, which reviews the use of encapsulated porcine […]
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BY DOUG EDMEADES Published today in AUSTRALASIAN SCIENCE Business management and the profit motive have put science in a strait-jacket, […]
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John Nixon, an engineer and chief executive of Auckland-based Optical Network Engineering, gives a telecommunications expert’s view on Australia’s A$43 […]
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Professor Ravi Naidu is the Managing Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment. […]
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George Jones, past President of the Royal Society’s Wellington branch, recently visited Iran and was given an insight into the […]
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Tony Lambert, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Auckland and Charlene Hallett has recently submitted an MSc thesis […]
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Excerpts from a column by Professor Gluckman, director of the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, a leading centre for research […]
Continue readingBiofuels still the way to go
Professor David Harries, Director of the Centre for Excellence into Energy for Sustainable Transport at Australia’s Murdoch University & Curtin […]
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