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The Ministry for Science and Innovation (MSI) released all the documentation for the 2012 Science Investment round in December. Well, the final Guidelines will be out in mid-February and there will be workshops then too but there is plenty to be getting on with. I’ve been working with various groups getting proposals underway so I’m…

There are interesting implications of the potential takeover of Turners and Growers by the Munich based BayWa Aktiengesellschaft for New Zealand horticultural research investment. Implications for research in general and for the Crown Research Institute Plant and Food in particular. Interestingly (on a personal basis), I can’t tell from Plant and Food’s Statement of Corporate…

Press Release by David Gould  at  8:50 am, 20 Oct 2011 Key casting is now complete on the thrilling self-funded feature THE CURE, due to begin filming for five weeks in and around Wellington from November 2nd Antonia Prebble (Outrageous Fortune, Power Rangers, The Tribe) stars in the lead role of Beth, a young and…

Last month I was at a reunion symposium for the Gait group at the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge. I was working there in the late 1980’s when automated chemical synthesis of DNA had just been pretty much sorted and we were getting to grips with solid phase synthesis of RNA (a much more…