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Vaxxas biomedical expertise to boost Griffith microtech

Queensland Biotechnology startup, Vaxxas has formed a new partnership with Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre (QMNC) at Griffith University to help boost nanotechnology commercialisation.
Vaxxas hold patents over one of the world most exciting biotechnology products, the Nanopatch™, which is a safer, more reliable and durable delivery system for vaccines than needles. QMNC is one of Queensland’s most advanced laboratories, previously focussing on new technologies in energy storage and distribution.
The agreement with Griffith sees a Vaxxas micro-manufacturing specialist employed full-time within the manufacturing laboratory at the Nathan campus, building precision-machined parts and equipment for Vaxxas.
The exchange of resources, rather than money, is not new within the industry, though at a University it usually involves research, rather than technical expertise.
The deal was brokered by the University’s commercialisation office, Griffith Enterprise and is part of a broader advanced manufacturing drive Griffith has been developing over the last five years.
Director of QMNC, Professor Nam-Trung

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Stop orphanage volunteering and reduce child exploitation

Australia must do more to stop child trafficking in developing nations says Kate van Doore, leading international child rights lawyer and Griffith Law School academic.
Ms van Doore, who will give evidence at the Parliamentary Inquiry into Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia in Melbourne next week, has been working to abolish orphanage tourism and funding which she says encourages child exploitation.
“Many Australians visit orphanages in developing countries like Cambodia where many children are not orphans at all. In fact it enables form of modern slavery where children are kept in poor conditions in orphanages to profit from well-meaning donors and volunteers,’’ she said.
Ms van Doore coined the term ‘paper orphaning’ as the active recruitment of children into orphanages or residential care institutions in developing nations for the purpose of ongoing exploitation through orphanage tourism and funding.
Orphanage tourism includes volunteering at, or visiting, orphanages in developing countries. This is an increasingly

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Women’s Rugby Sevens evolution has arrived

The inaugural Aon Women’s University Sevens Series (Aon Uni 7s) was officially launched at Macquarie University in Sydney today (Thursday), hailing the evolution of Women’s Rugby Sevens in Australia with the five-week tournament to kick off on August 25.
Off the back of Australia’s gold medal success at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, women and young girls have been flocking to Rugby Sevens right across the country to join one of the fastest growing women’s sports worldwide.
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Australian Rugby Union CEO Bill Pulver and members of Australia’s gold medal winning side, alongside the next generation of Aussie Sevens players launched the competition with their respective University teams in Sydney today.
The Australian Women’s Sevens squad has been distributed among the eight teams, alongside the next generation of rugby talent who are embracing the possibility of realising their Olympic dream.
A first for Australian sport
In an Australian sporting

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