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Last night at The New Dowse, the topic of the monthly Lower Hutt Cafe Scientifique focused on swine flu – […]
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“A pause before El Niño” NIWA has published its climate outlook for the next three months, and the gist of […]
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A new paper published by Australian and New Zealand researchers has thrown into stark relief the potential ecological crisis facing […]
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University of Canterbury experts say planting new forests, boosting sequestration in existing forests and increasing the use of wood as […]
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A New Zealand Herald article outlining how opposition from food industry groups helped defer mandatory fortification of bread with folic […]
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Folate is essential for synthesis of DNA and is therefore required for all rapidly growing cells. Without folate living cells […]
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Devon Polaschek, Associate Professor of Criminal Psychology in the School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, a forensic clinical psychologist […]
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Police use of tasers to subdue suspected criminals is again in the spotlight as Australian authorities investigate whether Western Australian […]
Continue readingExpert comment on mouse stem cell paper in Nature
Stem cells made from skin likely possess the same potential as embryonic ones to grow into organ replacements, according to […]
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