News & Blog
Researchers have modified algae to grow human therapeutic proteins that treat a range of diseases at levels suitable for commercial production.
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The tiny marine, wood-eating gribble that destroys ships and piers worldwide has gut enzymes that could hold the key to converting wood and straw into liquid biofuels.
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Water from one drink bottle could provide enough energy for an entire household in the developing world if on MIT chemist has his way.
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Nanosilver, used as a bactericidal agent, was suspended in solution and found to be toxic, sometimes lethal, to minnows, a Purdue University study showed.
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Resources
An overview of the key biofuels, their potential, and technical and social issues facing them.
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In a few decades human and machine will merge, illness will be eradicated, and human beings will live to 150. Take a journey into the imaginations of scientists and futurists pondering ways to use nanotechnologies, and discussions about how society should or could use them.
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Personal blog of Andrew Maynard, Chief Science Advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Educational resource to introduce accessible and innovative nano science and technology to secondary classrooms – includes web-based teaching modules, experiments, activities, animations and more
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Events
[ 15 April 2010 to 16 April 2010. ] Sth Australia science teacher’s conference
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[ 14 April 2010; 1:00 pm; ] 7. Birchip, contact GNTIS (techNyou) for further details
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[ 26 March 2010 to 27 March 2010. ] Tasmanian Science teacher conference, Hobart
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[ 30 March 2010 to 31 March 2010. ] 6. Horsham, VIC. Contact GNTIS (techNyou) for further details
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Questions?
A US fertility expert last week claimed to have implanted cloned embryos into women in an attempt to produce a cloned child, and apparently there is no shortage of volunteers. So why not allow human reproductive cloning?
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In many instances people are unaware that Australia even has regulators checking this stuff. But we do and the main one involved in assessing the safety of GMOs are listed here.
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A conference on human enhancement suggests the ethics of human enhancement will be the single most important issue in science & society in this century. So what is human enhancement and why is it raising the ethical hackles of many, yet exciting others? What should be morally permissible and what should not?
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