Vaux, of the University of Melbourne in Australia.

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Researchers from Deakin University near Melbourne, Australia say tests on rats have shown the technology could also mean people need to take a third as much insulin as they do with when it is in its conventional form.

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Monique Paris of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has been working with the common wombat, trying to understand its reproductive cycles as a prelude to tackling the rarer northern hairy-nosed variety, of which only 100 or so survive.

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"People who are more likely to purchase a product show significantly higher memory encoding than those who are less likely, " explains Richard Silberstein, a neuroscientist with the Brain Sciences Institute at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.

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Alan Trounson at Melbourne, Australia-based Monash University, a leader in the field, says that even if a cloned baby's genome was checked gene by gene with DNA microarrays such as those made by Affymetrix (nasdaq: AFFX - news - people ), there could be no assurance that the baby would be healthy.

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In December, the University of Melbourne published a survey of 1, 200 households across Australia in which two-thirds opposed taxing food.

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