Genetic variation discovered in cancer cell lines
Peptide drug could treat liver cancer more effectively
Could Australia's microbiome contain new antibiotics?
Yin Yang protein may fuel breast cancer growth
Non-viral CRISPR genome editing
Lab-grown nose cells could treat spinal cord injuries
Griffith University researchers have designed a new way to grow nose cells in the lab, in a breakthrough that heralds hope for sufferers of spinal cord injuries.
Virbac to distribute new anticancer treatment for dogs
Animal health company Virbac will market and distribute tigilanol tiglate, an anticancer pharmaceutical from QBiotics, to veterinary markets in the US, the UK and the EU.
Crowdsourced algorithms help predict epileptic seizures
Epileptic seizure prediction is now possible in a wider range of patients than previously thought, thanks to the crowdsourcing of more than 10,000 algorithms worldwide.
New immune cells added to blood cell 'atlas'
Melbourne researchers have revealed the identities of new subsets of immune cells at the frontline of our body's defences against infection.
New view of how living cells make energy
Researchers have made a fundamental discovery about the atomic structure of the biological machine that makes mitochondrial ribosomes, providing a new means to target this...
Peptide drug could treat liver cancer more effectively
A novel peptide drug called FFW could potentially stop the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or primary liver cancer.
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Could Australia's microbiome contain new antibiotics?
Industry and academia are coming together in a three-year, $6.9 million quest to search for new...
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Ultrasound used to burst chemo-capsules inside liver tumours
Heat-sensitive lipid capsules filled with chemotherapy have been ruptured remotely using...
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Enzymes enable faster, cheaper, more accurate DNA synthesis
The idea of using an enzyme to make DNA is not new — scientists have been trying for...
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Non-viral CRISPR genome editing
UC San Francisco scientists have genetically reprogrammed T cells without using viruses to insert DNA.
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Tracking pancreatic cancer's moving targets
For the first time, researchers have monitored drug-resistant regions in pancreatic tumours as...
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Does cancer immunotherapy work better in men than women?
Male cancer patients may benefit more from immunotherapy than female patients.
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Drug delays disability in secondary progressive MS
A new drug is said to slow the progression of disability in secondary progressive multiple...
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Genetic variation discovered in cancer cell lines
While scientists have thought that individual cell lines remain genetically uniform, they can in fact evolve in ways that dramatically change their...
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Tackling antibiotic resistance, one piece of possum poo at a time
A citizen science project led by Macquarie University is seeking answers to antibiotic resistance...
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How did the human brain get so big?
Over 3 million years of evolution, the human brain underwent a considerable increase in size and...
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Light-emitting particles enable real-time cell imaging
Researchers have created luminescent biomaterials that will allow them to track what happens...
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Yin Yang protein may fuel breast cancer growth
Cancer cells are much more reliant on the Yin Yang1 molecule than normal cells, and this may drive breast cancer growth.
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'Jumping genes' leap across species, driving evolution
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have traced two particular genes across 759 species of...
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Scientists successfully sequence the koala genome
Scientists have sequenced the full koala genome — a breakthrough which may aid in the...
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Gene expression fails to adapt in night shift workers
Researchers recently revealed the impact that a four-day simulation of night shift work had on...
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Award-winning digital innovations for the health sector
The winning entries in the 2015 national iAwards have brought a range of benefits to a variety of sectors — with the health sector being no...
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From little grants big labs grow
The Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences has officially opened its new laboratory —...
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A non-exclusive licence agreement for LBT and bioMérieux
LBT Innovations and bioMérieux have converted their exclusive licence...
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UTS opens state-of-the-art health and science building
UTS's Faculty of Science and Graduate School of Health Building - the third major development...
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