Annual reports for all eight Crown Research Institutes were tabled in parliament yesterday. Here are links to the reports that […]
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The Marsden Fund 2009 grants: news coverage
The recipients of this year’s Marsden Fund grants have been announced, with some 111 projects gaining $66 million in funding. […]
Continue readingPseudoephedrine to be hospital prescription-only
The Government has followed up the recommendation of the Chief Science Advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, signaling that it will […]
Continue readingUnlimited magazine: Two features on science
Unlimited interviews Young Scientist of the Year, Victoria University’s John Watt, and looks at the potential for the science sector […]
Continue readingFirst implant of DIABACELL® successful
Yesterday, Living Cell Technologies announced the successful first implant of its DIABECELL® in Auckland. This is the first of 8 […]
Continue reading$66 million in 2009 Marsden Fund grants – full details
Marsden Fund website Proposal Project Contact PI Institution Total 09-AGR-029 Breaking the mould: a novel mechanism of hyphal growth in […]
Continue readingWhy don’t Kiwis trust the media?
We hear the grumbles about the media all the time – from friends and family, colleagues and the inevitable bloggers […]
Continue readingCough and cold medicine out for under six year-olds
The New Zealand Government has followed through on a proposal, foreshadowed in August, to ban giving cough and cold medicines […]
Continue readingThe P problem – is banning pseudoephedrine the answer?
The Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, has been tasked with finding ways to fight New Zealand’s worsening methamphetamine […]
Continue readingAustralian wins Nobel Prize
Hobart-born scientist, Dr Elizabeth Blackburn is one of three scientists to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for […]
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