Dunedin Science

Dunedin — Professor Dearden, Otago University, has received $11 million from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Enterprise (MBIE) to engineer wasps using gene drive technology.

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Dunedin — Three winners have been announced in the 2012 Scifest Science Idol competition in their age group category from 8 -14 yrs, 15-21 yrs and 22+ and win a brand new iPad thanks to KlabLab.

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Dunedin — New Zealand International Science Festival, 30 June to 8 July, Dunedin, New Zealand Ticket and booking details to all events for the eighth New Zealand International Science Festival are now available.

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Dunedin — Alice Roberts, popular BBC presenter and professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham, will attend this year’s eighth New Zealand International Science Festival.

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Dunedin — Older people cannot lie as convincingly as younger people, are worse at detecting when others are lying, and the latter is linked to age-related decline in emotion recognition, new University of Otago research suggests.

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Dunedin — University of Otago researchers have uncovered further evidence that PAX genes − members of a small family of genes that play important roles in embryonic development – also allow cancer cells to grow and divide in adult tissue.

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Dunedin — ‘Science diplomacy’, which has become the new catch-cry for international relations, will go under the spotlight at the University of Otago’s annual Foreign Policy School next month.

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Dunedin — The University of Otago announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Dunedin — Professor Warren Tate of the University of Otago is this year's winner of the Rutherford Medal.

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Dunedin — In a major physics breakthrough with international significance, University of Otago scientists have developed a technique to consistently isolate and capture a fast-moving neutral atom – and have also seen and photographed this atom for the first time.

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Dunedin — University of Otago researchers have received major support from the prestigious Marsden Fund for a wide variety of innovative studies that will push the boundaries of current knowledge.

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Dunedin — A New Zealand environmental scientist has won a top international science prize for her contribution to the development of a simple, inexpensive test which measures arsenic levels in drinking water, and which has the potential to improve the lives of millions of people worldwide.

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Dunedin — A University of Otago international health researcher is part of a consortium that has successfully used genome scanning to identify a gene associated with increased susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) in African populations.

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Dunedin — Cutting-edge New Zealand genomic research is set to be boosted following the acquisition of a new DNA sequencer by the University of Otago.

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Dunedin — Researchers from the University of Otago, Christchurch’s, Van der Veer Institute have been granted $179,899 to investigate changes in the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease who suffer from anxiety.

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Dunedin — A University of Otago physicist is part of an international team that has developed the most efficient quantum “memory” for light in the world, an achievement that brings closer a future of super-fast computers and ultra-secure communications.

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Dunedin — In a world first, an international team of researchers, which includes University of Otago archaeologists Chris Jacomb and Richard Walter, has successfully isolated ancient DNA from eggshells of extinct birds.

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Dunedin — New Zealand's first Centre dedicated to the communication of science is being launched at the University of Otago on Thursday (21 February).

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Dunedin — Research, Science and Technology Minister Pete Hodgson was one of many New Zealand and international presenters who spoke today at the New Zealand Bioethics Conference in Dunedin.

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Dunedin — A lack of public awareness and understanding of the benefits genetic tests can bring to the health of individuals, families and communities has been highlighted in the latest report of the University of Otago-based Human Genome Research Project.

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Dunedin — New Zealand biotechnology company BLIS Technologies and Nestlé Nutrition, a unit of Nestlé SA, have agreed to broaden their research and development collaboration announced on 28 March 2007.

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Dunedin — A video by Otago University NZ regarding the study of the behaviour of matter at temperatures less than one millionth of a degree above absolute zero..

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