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Can Genetic Tests Identify Athletic Talent? • How to Help Young Academics Commercialise D••• Volume 37 | Number 1 JAN/FEB 2016 | ...

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JAN/FEB 2016|| 3 CONTENTS 114 17 29 35 FEATURES 13 Fertility in the 21st Century Fertility is a diverse field of research that e ...

4 | JAN/FEB 2016 CONTENTS 99 41 45 49 REGULAR COLUMNS 5 Simon Says Whether new technologies are applied for good or ill, they en ...

The word “disruptive” has become commonplace during the first 15% of the 21st century. This burgeoning usage is directly a funct ...

Researchers have defined key characteristics that enable some obese individuals to remain free from type 2 diabetes and other me ...

Analysis of almost 1000 proteins in the stem cells of schizophrenia patients has indicated that their cellular machinery for mak ...

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JAN/FEB 2016|| 9 No child or young athlete should be subjected to genetic testing for sporting talent or to boost performance, a ...

10 | JAN/FEB 2016 CSIRO has developed an innovative coating for medical devices and implants made from prebiotic “goo” that can ...

Oldest Stars Found Near Milky Way’s Centre Astronomers have discovered the oldest stars ever seen, dating from before the Milky ...

Ancient Climate Seesaw Scientists have unravelled the complex ocean and atmospheric behaviour that caused the global climate to ...

I n Australia today, one in six couples experiences infertility and typically one child in every classroom was conceived by medi ...

T he development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) for the treatment of infertility has opened up new and unexpected methods of al ...

energy used to perform cellular functions. Curiously, the proteins that carry out the most critical functions of the mitochondri ...

A limitation of the use of embryonic stem cells is that they are immunologically foreign to the person receiving them, and are t ...

G lobally, more women over the age of 30 are giving birth than in any previous generation. In fact, one in seven Australian wome ...

leads many women to ask probing questions about their own fertility. These questions vary in their specifics, but in a general s ...

tell a woman how long it will remain so. Because of these current deficiencies in our understanding, there is a great need to id ...

O ne in six Australian couples is infertile, and male infertility is the sole or a contributory cause in half of these. Treatmen ...