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$2m funding for hepatitis C research
Adelaide scientists will lead a $2 million, five-year project to develop better vaccines and treatment options for hepatitis C sufferers.
[ + ]Cancer cure may boost bandwidth
An unusual collaboration between IT researchers and geneticists may hold the key to increasing international internet speeds.
[ + ]Your brain: use it or lose it
UQ neuroscientists add more weight to the "use it or lose it" model for brain function. [ + ]
Dementia focus for Hodges
Cambridge University neuroscientist Professor John Hodges has been lured to the University of NSW. [ + ]
Geneticists to the internet's rescue
Genetic analysis of light fingers noise problem [ + ]
vivoPharm expands, TGR contracts
Adelaide biotechs vivoPharm and TGR expand and contract. [ + ]
New hope for disease prediction
For the first time, scientists can now show how a particular family of diseases is passed down from mother to child, and how this can lead to the severity of the disease differing widely.
[ + ]Copy number variations and intellectual disability
Researchers find microscopic copy number variations associated with X-linked mental retardation. [ + ]
Increased funding for Australian health and medical research
More than $124 million will be invested by the Australian Government in new medical and health research projects.
[ + ]Big grants for big projects
Two major projects to study colorectal cancer and HIV/AIDS were the big winners in the NHMRC grants round. [ + ]
H5 study in virus-like particles
Method to better interrogate H5 flu virus protein developed by Australian and international researchers. [ + ]
Australia and China join bird flu battle
A team of researchers from The Australian National University will lead a new joint research centre with China conducting leading-edge research into treatments for Avian Influenza (bird flu).
[ + ]Batman's place in evolution
Professor Emeritus Jack Pettigrew has argued for more than two decades that fruit bats are actually flying primates, distant relatives of monkeys, lemurs and us. [ + ]
Globetrotting rat genes reveal spread of human diseases
DNA of the common Black Rat (Rattus rattus) has shed light on the history of the spread of rats, people and diseases around the globe.
[ + ]Science and the supercomputer
High performance computing is stimulating collaborative research across state - and country - borders. [ + ]
