Highlights
International opportunity for young scientists (2011)
In 2011 the Maurice Wilkins Centre launched a new scheme to help its early-career scientists train in cutting-edge technology...
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School students get into hot water (2011)
With a blessing from Ngati Hei – and a polite request for tourists to move from their bathing holes – a unique experiment got...
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Mirror-image proteins - new biology from new chemistry (2011)
Maurice Wilkins Centre investigators are working with a pioneering international chemist to develop new methods for virus and...
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A new toolkit for building virtual humans (2011)
The Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI), established by Maurice Wilkins Centre cofounder Professor Peter Hunter, is a lea...
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New inhibitor for tuberculosis (2011)
A new way to shut down the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis has been devised by researchers in one of the Maurice Wilki...
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Dissecting drug side effects offers hope (2011)
Researchers from the Maurice Wilkins Centre have discovered how a common class of medicines causes diabetes-like symptoms, an...
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Exquisite networks (2011)
Innovative technology developed to study the heart has been adapted for a unique study of the immune system – and will now be...
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A blossoming collaboration with Japan (2011)
Formal relationships between the Maurice Wilkins Centre and high-profile Japanese research institutions were established in 2...
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New drug targets treatment-resistant cancer (2011)
A new drug targeting an important group of cancer cells attracted international funding in 2011 and will soon enter clinical ...
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