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The Salinger dismissal – Is there more to it?
**Correction: This blog post has been edited due to factual inaccuracies** A few weeks ago I was sitting on the […]
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Britain’s energy secretary, Ed Miliband has announced that no new coal-fired power station will now get government consent in the […]
Continue readingEncapsulated porcine islet cell transplantation – an evolving therapy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes
A new paper has just been published in Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, which reviews the use of encapsulated porcine […]
Continue readingSMC Briefing: Bovine genome sequenced and released
New Zealand scientists are among an international group of researchers who have sequenced the cow genome in its entirety and […]
Continue readingFears allayed about massive methane burp
A major spike in the powerful greenhouse gas methane nearly 12,000 years ago wasn’t the result of a catastrophic release […]
Continue readingConcerns about advice from staff in health food stores
A study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today raises concerns about advice being given by people working in […]
Continue readingA scientific project of epic proportions – the SKA
It’ll be one of the biggest scientific projects since the Large Hadron Collider was constructed beneath the Franco-Swiss border and […]
Continue readingSoil scientist – commercialisation push is disastrous
BY DOUG EDMEADES Published today in AUSTRALASIAN SCIENCE Business management and the profit motive have put science in a strait-jacket, […]
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