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BioScience News Daily Highlights - 11 December
Daily Highlights
1. Scientists create ebola vaccine
2.
Supplementary Questions - Russell Brown
3. Trans Tasman
action on climate change
4. Israel says no to GM food
labelling
5. Govt commits funds to researching mineral
wealth
6. GM stem cells destroy cancers
Scientists
create ebola vaccine
Scientists have successfully
immunised mice against the deadly ebola virus which has
killed thousands in Africa. They used virus-like particles
(VLPs) which are non-infectious but are capable of
tri...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5622
Supplementary
Questions - Russell Brown
Much of the Opposition to the
new trans-Tasman regime on dietary supplements has been,
frankly, quite self-serving - and it has come from people
not normally noted for their sympathy towards
businesse...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5618
Trans
Tasman action on climate change
The Convenor of the
Ministerial Group on Climate Change, Pete Hodgson, and the
Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage, David
Kemp, today announced details of the first projects to be
und...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5614
Israel
says no to GM food labelling
Industry and Trade Minister
Ehud Olmert announced yesterday that he would not order that
food produced using genetic modification techniques be
marked as such. According to the minister, despite
a...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5609
Govt
commits funds to researching mineral wealth
Researchers
will be looking at novel ways to develop New Zealand's
mineral wealth with the help of more than $10m over four
years from the Foundation for Research, Science and
Technology.Four majo...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5604
GM
stem cells destroy cancers
Genetically engineered stem
cells can find tumors and then produce biological killing
agents right at the cancer site, say researchers at The
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, who
have...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5613
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