Research In Focus

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• Would you ‘Like’ a drink?

  

  Posted: Thu, 16 May 2013 under Marsden In Focus

  Would you ‘Like’ a drink? Youth drinking cultures, social networking and alcohol marketing. Preventing alcohol abuse, especially among young people, has long been a focus… Read more…

   

• How deadly is deadly?

  

  Posted: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 under Marsden In Focus

  A global pandemic of some virulent engineered disease is the stuff of futuristic horror films, but pandemics can come from much more humble origins. The influenza pandemic of 1918 has been called one of the deadliest natural disasters... Read more…

   

• Oh Mother, Where Art Thou?

  

  Posted: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 under Marsden In Focus

  DNA profiles show that mass strandings of pilot whales may not be driven by kinship, as previously thought. Biologists since Aristotle have puzzled over the… Read more…

   

• Fishing for sprats

  

  Posted: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 under Marsden In Focus

  Is protecting the young while harvesting the old the best way of commercially managing our marine resources? The “minimum catch size” fishery model is widely used... Read more…

   

• A new type of volcanic eruption

  

  Posted: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 under Marsden In Focus

  Professor Colin Wilson and students at Victoria University of Wellington and Professor Ian Wright at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton have used a Marsden Fund grant to discover evidence for a new type of underwater volcanic eruption... Read more…

   

• Mapping the Origin of Indo-European

  Posted: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 under Marsden In Focus

  University of Auckland research published today in the journal Science tackles a 200-year old question and supports the controversial hypothesis that Indo-European languages originated in… Read more…

   

• Evolutionary benefits of sex in difficult places

  Posted: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 under Marsden In Focus

  University of Auckland scientists have provided the first experimental explanation of how sexual reproduction helps species adapt in challenging real-world environments, solving a classic conundrum… Read more…

   

• Can Bees Help Postoperative Recovery?

  

  Posted: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 under Marsden In Focus

  Anaesthesia, jet lag and bees are three concepts that do not usually go together. However research done by Dr Guy Warman and his team at The University of Auckland... Read more…

   

• Launch of La Déliverance de Renaud

  

  Posted: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 under Marsden In Focus

  La Délivrance de Renaud, edited by Greer Garden, is truly a book worthy of its subject – the spectacular court ballet of the same name that took place in 1617... Read more…

   

• Baker’s Yeast Key to Human Protein Research

  

  Posted: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 under Marsden In Focus

  It took simple baker’s yeast and a hunch about the mysterious behaviour of a protein. Now, a Massey University scientist’s research has paved the way… Read more…