I will give an informal talk about new results for two projects I have
been pursuing with the Mopra Telescope. The first is a search for
biomolecules conducted with the Mopra Telescope during UNSW time in 2002
and 2003. Mopra is now the proud bearer of the lowest upper limit for
glycine in the ISM in the usual suspects (Sgr B2 and Orion A), and has
been definitively able to rule out the claimed detection of Kuan et al.
in 2003. The second result is more recent. During 2006 the dense gas
tracer N2H+ was observed in the G333 molecular cloud as part of the UNSW
DQS survey. The molecule has a surprising distribution, which may be
telling us something about the formation mechanisms for massive stars.