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• Pain relief faster than snail's pace.

  - 2005-07-06

  Jul 06, 2005 (Australasian Science - ABIX via COMTEX) Melbourne scientists have developed a pain relief drug from the toxin of cone shell snails. University of Melbourne scientists patented the ACV1 compound in 2002. Studies with rats found that the compound gave more powerful...

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• Research grants to foster alliances with industry.

  - 2003-06-18

  Jun 18, 2003 (Environmental & Science Update - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Government has announced the names of recipients of the latest round of "Linkage Project" grants. Scientists working in more than 30 universities will receive $A47 million in research and development grants...

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• Flu fighters see the light after a beer.

  - 2003-06-02

  Jun 02, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian scientists have made breakthroughs in the fight against influenza. Stephen Turner and Peter Doherty made the discovery when working together at St Jude Children's Research Hospital, in Memphis, Tennessee. Doherty had earlier won the...

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• $2 million to Australian diabetes research.

  - 2002-09-18

  Sep 18, 2002 (Hospital & Healthcare - ABIX via COMTEX) Four Australian diabetes researchers have received over $A2 million from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The funding was allocated to two scientists at Melbourne's Walter & Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research and two...

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• Wadham: Scientist for Land and People. (JAS Review of Books). (book review)

  - 2001-12-01

  L R Humphreys, Wadham: Scientist for Land and People, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 225, hb $43.90. Samuel Wadham was an intellectual with a scientific training who played a significant role in Australian public life from the Depression years until the 1960s. The subtitle...

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