CSIRO research in greatest biotech show on earth
Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, is mounting a major display of technologies this week at BIO 2004, the world's largest biotechnology conference, being held in San Francisco, USA, from 6-9 June. ...CSIRO research being featured includes: ... ... ... Gene Silencing and related techniques powerful new gene technologies to enhance therapies and contr...CSIRO scientist wins highest global award for fisheries research
An Australian scientist has won the highest accolade in the world for ecological research, the prestigious Japan Prize. ...... Dr Keith Sainsbury, a CSIRO marine ecologist and mathematical modeller received the Prize for his international efforts to conserve fisheries and marine ecosystems....... The award relates to food production based on sustainable ecosystems, a concept that Dr Sainsbury and...New drug discovery spin-off from CSIRO
CSIRO Entomology today announced the establishment of a company dedicated to producing a wide range of therapeutic drugs from a virtually untapped source - insects. ...... "Entocosm Pty Ltd has been established to develop the leading global position on developing drugs from insects," CSIRO's Chief Executive, Dr Geoff Garrett, said....... There are around 250,000 plant species on earth but there a...Millenium bug found by CSIRO scientists
.It's the moment the world has been waiting for. Taxonomists at CSIRO Entomology have announced the discovery of the "real" Millennium Bug.. .Head of the Australian National Insect Collection, Dr Ebbe Nielsen, reports that the bug, a small water strider, is harmless to computers. "It feeds on flies and other small insects, not files," he says.. .Found at altitude in mountain streams of southeast...Jurassic Beetle: CSIRO Entomologist Discovers Living Fossil
.CSIRO entomologist Dr John Lawrence admits it was a thrill:. the delicate bronze-and-white spiny beetle glittering in the. light of his microscope was a living fossil, whose ancestral. roots go back almost 200 million years. . "The peculiar look of the animal caught my eye straight. away. The unique combination of spines, scales and lack of wings.. At first I was puzzled, then I realise...CSIRO researchers, working with the company Phosyn PLC, have. produced a spray-on treatment which will reduce the number of. oranges developing costly and unsightly puffiness, not unlike. cellulite.. "Albedo breakdown - or 'creasing' in the white layer. under an orange's peel - can affect up to 90 per cent of the. fruit grown by some growers," says Dr Michael Treeby of. CSIRO Plant Indus...CSIRO scientists have discovered a natural substance which rejuvenates.ageing human skin cells. . . ne) a substance naturally present in human and.animal tissues, has remarkable properties when it comes to fighting the.ageing process. . His discovery, the result of many years' laboratory research, has led.to today's launch by the Sydney-based Beta Peptide Foundation PL of three.revolutionary ski...