The first patient to have pig islet cells transplanted as part of LCT’s Diabacell clinical trials, has been able to […]
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A wrap-up of the science stories grabbing headlines here and internationally.
Scientists debate carbon sequestration and geoengineering options
This week’s issue of Nature Geoscience (cover — “Locking carbon in minerals”), timed to coincide with Copenhagen climate talk preparations, […]
Continue readingAtea-1 blasts off
Yesterday, following a slight delay, Atea-1 took to the sky. The 6m tall rocket, developed by Auckland firm Rocket Lab […]
Continue readingTVNZ: GE weeds spread from containment glasshouse
A piece by TVNZ on MAF’s investigation of a potential GM-trial breach on the Lincoln campus of Crown Research Institute, […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Chronic fatigue cause unlocked
Alice Neville of the New Zealand Herald reports that the previously-unknown cause of chronic fatigue syndrome has been found. Chronic […]
Continue readingDom Post: New Zealand scientists find new cancer drug
Ruth Hill of the Dominion Post reports on a new class of anti-cancer drugs, developed by New Zealand scientists from […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: A climate scandal, or is it just hot air?
Eloise Gibson of the New Zealand Herald writes about the recent ‘Climategate’ scandal, in which emails stolen from a leading […]
Continue readingDom Post: Kiwi scientist makes a twitter breakthrough
Kiran Chug writes about a new technique which is able to accurately estimate bird population size using microphone arrays. The […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Recession no bar to fossil fuel emissions
Eloise Gibson writes about a recent report which suggests that, while the global recession did impact greenhouse gas emissions a […]
Continue readingDom Post: Birdlife explosion as possum numbers slashed
Paul Easton of the Dominion Post reports on the success of anti-possum strategies, which have procued drops in posusm numbers […]
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