Tag: Australia
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International Consortium Sequences Wheat Pathogen Genome
A group of agricultural scientists has sequenced the genome of a pathogen that causes the wheat disease septoria tritici blotch, responsible for severe crop losses. Their findings appeared 9 June 2011 in the journal PLoS Genetics. The consortium, led by USDA plant pathologist Steven Goodwin included researchers from the U.S., Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Iran,…
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Trial Shows Tele-Rehab Results Similar to Standard Methods
Knee replacement patients undergoing tele-rehabilitation, a postoperative rehabilitation program conducted from a remote setting like the patient’s home, experience similar results as patients who undergo traditional postoperative rehabilitation. Findings from this new study were published in the 19 January 2011 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. The research, conducted as a clinical…
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Academic-Business Partnership Developing IVF Technology
A reproductive biologist at University of Adelaide in Australia has discovered molecules in a mother’s tissue that can help women who have suffered previous miscarriages after in-vitro fertilization (IVF) improve their rates of subsequent IVF success. Professor Sarah Robertson (pictured right), who made the discovery, is partnering with a Danish company to develop a product…