Saturday | 6 December, 2008
Australian Biotechnology News

Stories about: Alpha

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    CSL profit up 30pc, to outlay $3.5b for Talecris 13/08/2008 12:14:41

    CSL reports massive earnings, agrees to buy US plasma business Talecris
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    BIO 2008 - Cancer detection by a hair's breadth 05/06/2008 11:00:36

    The ability to diagnose breast cancer by studying human hair may sound a little out there, but Sydney company Fermiscan is about to finalise a validation trial of technology that will do just that.
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    Protein location marks depression 19/03/2008 12:13:46

    US researchers say protein caught in lipid rafts affects neurotransmitter action.
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    Big week for Australian biotechs 12/03/2008 15:49:21

    Progen goes into Phase III and ChemGenex Phase II, Bionomics looks at anxiety, Clinuvel gets orphan designation and Avexa announces collaboration and good results.
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    Blobology and proteins' little helpers 13/02/2008 12:19:19

    One of the world's leading structural biologists, Helen Saibil, is bringing her knowledge -- and some spectacular images -- of molecular chaperones to the Lorne Protein conference.
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    Alpha-toxin didn't do it 12/02/2008 11:48:32

    Australian research shows that a long-suspected alpha-toxin protein is not the guilty party in exacerbating poultry necrotic enteritis.
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    Batman's place in evolution 01/02/2008 11:40:24

    Professor Emeritus Jack Pettigrew has argued for more than two decades that fruit bats are actually flying primates, distant relatives of monkeys, lemurs and us.
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    Antibody homes in on leukaemic stem cells 13/12/2007 16:47:38

    Australia's largest biotechnology company, CSL, has released preliminary data on a novel antibody therapy for acute myeloid leukaemia.
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    Pig islets ready to Rocky and roll 11/12/2007 11:18:26

    LCT is set to start a pig islet transplantation trial for type 1 diabetes that may have a profound effect on the debate over Australia's xenotransplantation moratorium in 2009.
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    Immunology feature: landlords, tenants and immune response 04/12/2007 15:20:13

    Mariapia Degli-Esposti's team at Perth's Lions Eye Institute is looking closely at why the immune system puts up a good fight against some viral infections but has problems with others.
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    ComBio special: Nodding acquaintance between legumes and bacteria 17/09/2007 11:49:02

    Studying the symbiotic relationship between legumes and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria raises the possibility of a potential application in cereals.
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