Hmm. Interesting.
Shame about the press release (where did that person dredge up so many
factoids?).
But the alert is useful. 10 minutes with Google yielded:
A paper given at the Australian/Korean Rheology Conference, 2005:
Viscoelastic Behaviour of Synthetic Resilin Gels:A Perfect Rubber-like protein
Naba K. Dutta*, N D Tran, N Roy Choudhury, University of South Australia; A J
Hill, CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology, Clayton, Victoria; C
Elvin, CSIRO Livestock Industries, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
August last year, at UQ, a seminar:
Dr Chris Elvin, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Livestock Industries (UQ)
will discuss The production and material properties of recombinant resilin - a
rubber protein from insects from 1-2pm, August 4 in Room 3.146, Queensland
Bioscience Precinct, St Lucia campus.
Some interesting comments here:
www.dest.gov.au/sectors/research_sector/policies_issues_reviews/key_issues/ncris/documents/n59_rtf.htm
Anything published in the open literature yet?
Julian Vincent
Quoting Arthur Brandwood <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi everyone -
>
> I came across this link today... About attempts to produce resilin from
> bacteria.
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> http://www.future.org.au/news_2005/august/insect.html
>
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> Arthur
>
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