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Roos May Hold Key To Blocking Skin Cancers
01 Dec 2009
The article reports on the investigations of a team of scientists from Australia and Austria into an enzyme present in kangaroos that appears to repair damage to their DNA caused by UV rays. They are investigating whether a cream containing such an enzyme is a feasible solution for the prevention...
National Curriculum Year 10
Mixed Messages On Gene Patenting
23 Apr 2010
A US district court ruling that genes are a product of nature and not made or invented makes them ineligible to be patented. The article canvases a range of Australian opinions and possible implications for scientific research and the development of treatments for genetic diseases if the decision...
National Curriculum Year 10
Frogman
27 Aug 2009
The program catches up with the winner of the 2009 Eureka Prize for "Early Career Species Discovery", Dr Conrad Hoskins. His research area is taxonomy, the discovery and classification of new species. The program shows his fieldwork in the rainforests of Queensland, new discoveries...
National Curriculum Year 10
Devil In The Detail
18 Jun 2009
Tasmanian Devils are threatened with extinction. They are afflicted by a unique type of contagious cancer that's never been seen in nature before. Unless the spread of the cancer can be stopped, they could be wiped out with devastating effect to Tasmania's ecosystems. New research from human cancer...
National Curriculum Year 10
Clever Cancer
27 May 2010
Dr Mary Demasi reports on a research project at the Garvan Institute in Sydney where scientists are studying a relatively new area called "epigenetics". This work with prostrate cancer shows that it's genes being turned on and off, not genetic change that controls the growth of some...
National Curriculum Year 10
Catalyst: Stem Cell Ethics
08 Apr 2010
The program is a follow up to Making Life screened the previous week where the process of making pluripotent stem cells from skin cells was described and where the potential to use these IPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cells) instead of human embryos in stem cell therapies was discussed. This...
National Curriculum Year 10
Catalyst: Making Life
01 Apr 2010
The program describes the ground breaking work of Japanese scientists in creating an alternative type of pluripotent stem cell, not from embryos but from skin cells. Unexpectedly, Chinese researchers then have shown that these cells have the potential to create new life. The program provides an...
National Curriculum Year 10
Something In The Water [Parts 1 & 2]
15 Feb 2010
Two determined people with scientific backgrounds who, with the support of local oyster farmers, sought to find out what was poisoning the water in George's Bay in NE Tasmania
National Curriculum Year 10
Eco-friendly science with Bernie Hobbs
07 May 2009
What's better for the garden - rain or tap water?; how do you measure the distance to the horizon?; and why does my skin go wrinkly? A range of questions are explored and discussed. Quite often a range of variables influencing a phenomenon are identified, discussed and there is speculation about...
BOS NSW Syllabus Years 9 and 10
How epigenetics is changing our fight with disease
01 Oct 2009
Sequencing the human genome was supposed to answer our questions about the genetic origins of disease but the burgeoning science of epigenetics is telling us it's a whole lot more complicated. A ideal resource for students researching the changing methods of dealing with disease. Changes to genes,...
BOS NSW Syllabus Years 11 and 12
