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Dining

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Following your dreams and drinking deeply of life
Peter Althaus searched the world for a vineyard to produce Bordeaux-inspired wines and settled on the Coal River Valley in Hobart in 1989. An ex-IBM executive, and Founder of the Swiss wine-tasting association, Peter had an extra-ordinary palate. And within years Peter was producing award-winning wines like a wooded Sauvignon Blanc that Halliday would describe as the best in the world. The highly intelligent, intense, quietly spoken, and humble man produced some of the greatest wines Australia has ever known. Through Domaine-A, his memory will live on, as will his legacy of following your dreams and drinking deeply of life.
14 January 2021 by Ivan Brewer

Healthcare

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Aussie biotech addressing sepsis with new diagnostic
Australian company Microbio has been awarded a Federal Government Accelerating Commercialisation Grant to commercialise a new diagnostic assay to rapidly identify 26 of the most common pathogens that cause bloodstream infections and sepsis. The InfectID-Blood Stream Infection (BSI) diagnostic assay is a real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) identifies the pathogen causing the infection in about two hours to enable patients to be treated with targeted antimicrobials in a timely manner. Sepsis kills around 11 million people around the world each year. | https://microbio.com.au/news-and-events/ 
14 January 2021 by Mel Raassina

Wellbeing

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You can now set IdeaSpies as an App to your phone
Uni interns tried for two years to develop an App for IdeaSpies with the same functionality as the platform. Then it was real
14 January 2021 by IdeaSpies

PropTech

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Planning regulations that retain local character
Character is what makes a neighbourhood distinctive and is the identity of the place. It encompasses the way a place looks and fee
13 January 2021 by IdeaSpies

Startup

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Ending on a High! Investment into Israeli Companies Skyrocketed in 2020
2020 was a crazy year, to say the least, now it is a great time to reflect on what happened over those past 12 months. Although the year started off with promise and potential for many companies around the world, the unfortunate events that were about to unfold in regards to COVID-19 changed the world as we know it. However, the challenge of COVID did not present a problem to Israeli technology but instead an opportunity, which is why by the end of the year the number of start-ups that offered service-based solutions to the Coronavirus increased to 400...http://www.israeltrade.org.au/ending-on-a-high-investment-into-israeli-companies-skyrocket-in-2020/
13 January 2021 by Jeremy Ungar

Healthcare

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Data transfer from Computers to Living Cells
DNA has been the predominant information storage medium for biology and holds great promise as a next-generation high-density data medium in the digital era.Researchers from Columbia University have demonstrated a new approach that can directly convert digital electronic signals into genetic data stored in the genomes of living cells. That could lead to a host of applications both for data storage and beyond, says Harris Wang, who led the research published in Nature Chemical Biology.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-020-00711-4
12 January 2021 by Jenny Morawsk...