Most vaccines need a ‘magic' booster or adjuvant to boost our immune response to the vaccine. But the best adjuvants are too toxic for human use. Now NZ scientists believe they have created a …
Counting viruses and mustering molecules
How many viruses are there in your blood? How many dangerous nano-particles in your car exhaust? qViro is a revolutionary New Zealand invention that offers the potential to quickly and cheaply answer …
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A hero of women and science: 2008 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science
Ian Frazer Follow this link to Ian Frazer's acceptance speech: http://www.uq.edu.au/news/?article=16238 Ian Frazer has created four vaccines to fight cervical cancer. Two of them-Gardasil and …
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The miracle of milk revealed online
Milk is complex, and understanding its molecular biology is a difficult but rewarding challenge. Not only are human and cow milk of huge social and economic importance, the milk of other animals …
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Big babies and small families make evolutionary sense
Why don’t elephants (and humans) have thousands of little babies instead of one big one? …
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Does my asinina look big in these genes?
The world’s fastest growing abalone—the tropical donkey’s ear abalone, Haliotis asinina—can be bred to grow rapidly and reliably for aquaculture, Queensland biologists have found. And that makes it …
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