We collaborate with top academic scientists to develop the most useful exciting new technology to benefit treatments in Oncology and Womens’ Health through creating:
• novel assays for use in diagnostic and theranostic products
• new medicines for licensing to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies

08/28/2008 08:00 AM

Social Personality Trait And Fitness

Animal personalities are defined as consistent individual differences across time and context. We recently demonstrated that social personality traits (i.e. sociability) exist in the common lizard and that the variation of sociability provides an explanation for variable habitat preferences within a given species. Here, we showed that the variation in sociability also affect individual success across habitats of different population densities.

08/28/2008 08:00 AM

Temperature Dependent Sex-biased Embryo Mortality In A Bird

This is the first study to show temperature dependent sex-biased embryo mortality operating in a bird. Molecular sexing of chicks and embryos of the Australian Brush-turkey (Alectura lathami) confirmed that male embryo mortality was greater at high temperatures while female mortality is greater at low temperatures, with mortality in both sexes similar at intermediate incubation temperatures.

08/28/2008 08:00 AM

Prominent German Biologist Wins EMBO Communication Award

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced that the German evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer from the University of Konstanz, Germany, will receive the 2008 EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. EMBO awards the prize annually to a practicing scientist in Europe for outstanding communication with the public.