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New Zealand, Russia leading in xenotransplantation trials
There’s always a certain cringe factor when we start talking about taking tissue or even whole organs from animals and […]
Continue readingBiofuels still the way to go
Professor David Harries, Director of the Centre for Excellence into Energy for Sustainable Transport at Australia’s Murdoch University & Curtin […]
Continue readingDrilling back in time in the name of climate science
Can looking at samples of five million year-old rock sediment tell us the consequences of warming the earth by pumping […]
Continue readingVitamin B12 and neural tube defects
A study published in the Pediatrics journal this month suggests that vitamin B12 may be an important nutrient in preventing […]
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Continue readingNew scientific research units for AUT
AUT: Eradicating a cause of economic loss in New Zealand’s dairy industry is one of several key research areas for […]
Continue readingQueensland’s coast blighted by leaked oil – experts respond
Pelicans and turtles are among the animals suffering the effects of an oil spill from a cargo ship that has […]
Continue readingPeking Man’s age revised by 200,000 years
The bones of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus, commonly known as ‘Peking Man’, may be 200,000 years older than previously thought, according […]
Continue readingStudies uncover health impacts of melamine consumption
Nearly six months after the San-Lu tainted milk powder scandal in China broke drawing New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra into […]
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