CSIRO, like most universities, has a commercial arm and will commercialise their technologies if they are found to be worth it. Its ubiquitous to major research organisations.
Can we not dumb it down too much please - the plant being grown is clearly Arabidopsis thaliana - it is the single most studied species of plant, being that it is used as a model for all plants - like Drosophila (fruit fly) and mice.
That Ghandi was never given a Nobel prize was one has been cited as a mistake by the committee that decides these things. They are unfortunately never awarded posthumously.
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Nope, we (Australian) taxpayers paid for it, and if it has a commercial benefit the CSIRO should get money from it to roll back into the research.
CSIRO, like most universities, has a commercial arm and will commercialise their technologies if they are found to be worth it. Its ubiquitous to major research organisations.
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Fine: Mus musculus, but I didn't think that genus/species name would be as recognisable as the others.
Can we not dumb it down too much please - the plant being grown is clearly Arabidopsis thaliana - it is the single most studied species of plant, being that it is used as a model for all plants - like Drosophila (fruit fly) and mice.
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That Ghandi was never given a Nobel prize was one has been cited as a mistake by the committee that decides these things. They are unfortunately never awarded posthumously.
I informed them that they failed at the internet.
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr
Give me Joe Hockey over the rest of them for PM any day.
Unless they have added a new feature, the wikidashboard is old news - as evinced by this Wikipedia signpost article from 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-09-17/In_the_news