Monitoring BK virus in kidney transplant patients
02 October, 2014A new technique for monitoring BK viral loads in kidney transplant patients offers the potential to improve patient outcomes and reduce clinical load.
Making biofuels from wine waste
02 October, 2014A cocktail of fungi and pre-treatment with heat facilitates the breakdown of wine waste into potentially useful commercial metabolites.
Funding environmental science research
01 October, 2014The National Environmental Science Program will receive funding of $102 million over four years from the Australian Government.
Preventing implant failures with biochemical Braille
01 October, 2014Australian and South Korean researchers have developed a method to help reduce biomedical and prosthetic device failure rates - currently sitting at 17% - by enabling Braille-like communication between medical implants and a patient's cells.
Ig Nobel prizes 2014
26 September, 2014 by Akshat Rathi and Flora Lisica, The ConversationThe 24th Ig Nobel prizes were announced on 18 September. The prizes annually award scientific research that "first makes people laugh and then makes them think".
Treating arthritis once a year
26 September, 2014A once-a-year treatment with medicines used to treat osteoporosis shows promise for treating osteoarthritis.
Cartilage furthers its own destruction in arthritis
23 September, 2014Cartilage plays an active role in the destruction and remodelling of joints in rheumatoid arthritis.
veski Innovation Fellowships
18 September, 2014Applications are open for the veski Innovation Fellowships that encourage international researchers to relocate to Victoria.
CRCs' time to shine
17 September, 2014 by Susan WilliamsonAn external review of the Cooperative Research Centres Program will be led by business leader David Miles.
Potential new treatment for GVHD
15 September, 2014 by Susan WilliamsonA potential new treatment option for bone marrow transplant patients who develop transplant-related chronic graft-versus-host disease will soon be tested in a clinical trial.
2014 Eureka Prizes announced
12 September, 2014The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes last night celebrated 25 years of rewarding outstanding contributions to Australian science.
Australian scientist re-elected to international science council
08 September, 2014Professor David Black has been re-elected as Secretary General of the International Council for Science.
Australia needs a science strategy
04 September, 2014Chief Scientist Ian Chubb has called for a coherent, strategic and long-term approach to science in Australia.
Experimental drug for Ebola
01 September, 2014The experimental drug ZMapp has proven effective in treating the Ebola virus in monkeys.
Don't throw out the placenta
30 August, 2014Deciphering how to extract quantities of endothelial stem cells from the placenta is providing a potential new use for an organ usually discarded.
