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Authors call for overhaul of intellectual property laws worldwide
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OTTAWA – The world’s intellectual property system is broken, stopping lifesaving technologies from reaching the people who need them most in developed and developing countries, according to a report released in Ottawa today by an international coalition of experts.
[Read more…] about Landmark study reports breakdown in biotech patent system
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In a circular tunnel beneath the border of France and Switzerland, scientists will this Wednesday just after 6pm begin one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken. Half a world away, researchers in Melbourne and Sydney who have played a crucial part in the enormous collaborative effort will be watching in great anticipation.
And no, the world won’t end tomorrow
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Just after 6pm today, Wednesday 10 September, the Large Hadron Collider will start up. Twenty years in the making, the A$6 billion machine will smash particles together in an attempt to recreate the conditions of the early universe fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
[Read more…] about Australia’s role in the LHC: the world’s largest physics experiment
As Papua New Guinea Pushes for Payments for Forest Conservation, New Analysis Says Nation May Be Running Out of Forests to Protect
Satellite Images Show that PNG is Rapidly Losing its Extensive Forest Cover,
Under Pressure from Industrial Logging, Agricultural Expansion and Forest Fires
Friday, 18 April 2008: available for interviews this morning.
Today the co-discoverer of the double helix, James Watson, had his genome published in the journal Nature. His was the second genome published. The first cost billions. Watson’s genome cost just a few hundred thousand.
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Fifty five years after Watson and Crick discovered DNA’s double helix and ten years after Australia’s national genome facility opened, how are genetics and genomics changing our lives? What will the next decade bring?
Canberra, Australia — Papua New Guinea will begin immunising children this month with a vaccine that promises to rid the nation of Haemophilus Influenzae type b, or Hib disease, one of the deadliest causes of meningitis and pneumonia.
By Julian Lob-Levyt
Poor nations can’t develop if their children and mothers aren’t healthy enough to make it to adulthood. And that’s a big sustainability issue for Australia’s closest neighbours, one that requires new approaches. Australia has an important role to play.
[Read more…] about Fulfilling the promise of science for the poorest children
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Following the recent announcement of a NZ $3.8m grant package for the Australia New Zealand Biotechnology Partnering Fund (ANZBPF), applications for the 2008/09 fund are now open.
[Read more…] about Australia New Zealand Biotechnology Partnership Fund (ANZBPF) applications open
The partnership will be assisted by a NZ$2 million grant announced by New Zealand Economic Development Minister Pete Hodgson last night.
Some recent projects: ASTRO 3D, MindEar, Cortical Labs (Dishbrain), Illumina, ABC, World Mining Congress 2023.