Auckland Science

Auckland City — Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce is encouraging the public to visit the Science in the City exhibition which opens tomorrow on Auckland’s waterfront.

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Auckland City —   New Zealanders will have the extremely rare chance to watch the planet Venus in transit across the face of the Sun on Wednesday the 6th of June.

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Auckland City — The Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) announced today $1,864,982 in funding tomedical researchers in Auckland in its December 2011 grant round.

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Auckland City — Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, chief science adviser to the Prime Minister, will help kick-start Auckland’s development into a major Asia-Pacific innovation hub when he speaks in Auckland next week.

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Auckland City — University of Canterbury academic Dr Travis Horton has been appointed a director of the Fulbright New Zealand Board.

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Auckland City — The University of Auckland continues to be the best performing New Zealand university in subject rankings released by QS World University Rankings®.

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Auckland City — The University of Auckland has been ranked in the top 50 in the world and first in New Zealand in life sciences subjects.

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Auckland City — The first of an exciting new class of anti-cancer drugs designed in New Zealand will proceed to clinical development in the United States, following the announcement today of a deal between Proacta Incorporated and Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.

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Auckland City — International gurus of asthma and allergy research arrive in New Zealand later this month to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the world’s largest collaborative study undertaken with children.

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Auckland City — The University of Auckland’s Centre for Infrastructure Research set up to help tackle New Zealand’s infrastructure challenges is being launched today in Wellington.

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Auckland City — The Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) is offering a new prize at the 2010 Medical Sciences Conference, which honours the lifetime achievements of Emeritus Professor John Carman.

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Auckland City — Stroke victims may soon know the relief of having a definitive prediction of their chances of recovery, according to research conducted by the University of Auckland.

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Auckland City — A special “gym” designed by University of Auckland student Casey Jowers to exercise human bone cells in the laboratory could help to develop better drug therapies for osteoporosis and other bone diseases.

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Auckland City — New Zealand scientist Dr Steve O'Shea, well known for his study of giant squid, is attempting to break his own world record for keeping deep sea squid alive in captivity, as a warm up to his goal of one day raising a giant squid in a tank.

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Auckland City — The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium (PGSC), an international team of scientists including New Zealand’s Plant & Food Research, has announced that it has released the first draft sequence of the potato genome.

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Auckland City — Two of New Zealand’s leading research organisations, The University of Auckland and AgResearch, have announced a major new collaboration to improve human health through diet.

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Auckland City — An Electronic Dive Buddy built by University of Auckland engineering students could make scuba diving a much safer sport.

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Auckland City — Emerging discoveries in robotics, software and power systems are among the cutting-edge research projects to be displayed to the public for the first time at RED Day.

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Auckland City — The Edith Winstone Blackwell Trust has gifted $4.5 million for the development of a public outreach facility at the Leigh Marine Laboratory as part of The University of Auckland’s new South Pacific Centre for Marine Science (SPCMS).

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Auckland City — A national and international campaign to raise funds to develop a South Pacific Centre for Marine Science (SPCMS) was launched today by Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Helen Clark.

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Auckland City — Imagine a theatre where all the sights and sounds occur around you with unbelievable realism...

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