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    Megabats, microbats and the most interesting gene in the genome 20/03/2008 12:59:53

    Graeme O'Neill has been writing about science for almost 30 years and along the way he's developed a couple of favourite stories. One is the evolution of fruit bats, recounted in our last issue, and the other is the role of FOXP2, sometimes called the Chomsky Gene. In a sublime twist, the two stories have merged together.
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    Aust hearing technology backs new German device 22/04/2005 15:23:44

    In one of the funnier scenes in the movie comedy Yellowbeard, John Cleese's character, Blind Pew, asserts he has acute hearing -- to the bemusement of others, who, amid the hubbub of street noise, hear it as "a cute earring". If people with normal hearing have trouble filtering a clear message from the noisy medium, the problem is magnified enormously for the hearing-impaired.
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    Polynovo to test biopolymer 'glue' for new bionic ear 22/10/2004 14:57:54

    PolyNovo Biomaterials, a 50-per cent owned subsidiary of Perth's Xceed Biotechnology (ASX:XBL), has entered a research alliance with Melbourne's Bionic Ear Institute to develop a more sophisticated bionic ear that could dramatically improve patients' hearing by inducing new auditory nerves to grow and connect with the bionic implant.
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