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By Ian Nisbet*
“If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 46 if you’re in Japan.” (Claire Cook, Seven Year Switch)
In the late 1980s and early 1990s I was working at CSL during the years leading up to its public listing and prior to it becoming the behemoth it […]
18 November 2020
By Leigh Dayton
They may not be able to gather at the Melbourne Convention Centre this year, but global experts in immunotherapy will swap ideas December 15 & 16 as Eradicate Cancer 2020 goes virtual.
Taking on the role of conference convenor for the second time, after the highly successful inaugural Conference in 2018, […]
Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life wins the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
7 October 2020
Using these tools, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with […]
View the article in the CRC (Cooperative Research Centres Association) Association Newsletter here : CRC Association Newsletter
Cartherics’ cost-effective ‘off-the-shelf’ ovarian cancer therapy made from special donor umbilical cord blood samples is in the final stages of preclinical development.
By combining immunotherapy and stem cell research, we can manufacture Natural Killer (NK) cells that carry a […]
Along with others Alan shares his experience in this short clip ………
We're celebrating 40 years of the GSK Award for Research Excellence (ARE) with support from our esteemed alumni.
Some of our past winners took time out in #lockdown to reflect on the impact of the ARE on their work & the importance of supporting Aussie research. #40YearsOfARE pic.twitter.com/cI67CeUpVo
— GSK Australia (@GSK_AU) September 2, 2020
Check out this piece about Cartherics co-founder Alan Trounson which ran Sunday on ABC TV’s Landline.
About 10 million babies have been born worldwide through IVF. Many wouldn’t realise a lot of the breakthroughs were made in a woolshed by animal embryologist professor Alan Trounson, stem cell pioneer and co-founder of Cartherics.
https://www.abc.net.au/landline/fertile-journey:-from-sheep-breeding-to-ivf-babies/11970346
Good Weekend’s Who Mattered 2019 : Science (by Konrad Marshall 30 November 2019)
Every year as Nobel Prize season warms up, Jacques Miller, 88, begins fielding calls from all over the world, all with the same message: […]
Cancer starts […]
Image: Robert Klein is finalizing a ballot initiative that asks California voters to re-fund the state’s stem cell agency.
MEDIANEWS GROUP/THE MERCURY NEWS VIA GETTY IMAGES
Bob Klein is proposing to bring a second ballot initiative to Californian voters […]
A mystery and a minefield: in the 1980s, two Californian millionaires land in Melbourne hoping to have a child using IVF.
No one could have anticipated the incredible saga and debate their case unleashed …….
Here is a direct link to the audio on the website:
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/the-trouble-with-embryos/11590280
Here is a link to the second program, which focuses […]
