Researchers grow heart and blood cells from reprogrammed skin cells
06 May, 2008Stem cell researchers at UCLA were able to grow functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had been reprogrammed into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells.
First human DNA large-scale variation map is produced
05 May, 2008Researchers in the US have produced the first sequence-based map of large-scale structural variation across the human genome.
The source of lethal heparin contamination
29 April, 2008Contaminated heparin recently caused a spate of deaths all around the world. Researchers used NMR to identify the contaminant.
Scientists discover the double life of proteins
29 April, 2008Scientists have discovered a link between blood pressure regulation and nutrition that could also help to shed light on intestinal and kidney function.
Instrument for tissue damage assessment developed at QUT
29 April, 2008A tool with the potential to determine the level of tissue damage in patients with osteo-arthritis, sports injuries and other conditions affecting bone and cartilage is being developed by QUT researchers.
The impact of IT on next-generation DNA sequencing
22 April, 2008Will the IT industry be able to keep up in the race for the $1000 genome?
New ways to tackle HIV
09 April, 2008At the Sir Mark Oliphant Conference on Vaccine and Immunotherapy Technologies in Canberra on 9–10 April, Prof Stephen Kent described how the immune system can be primed to attack the HIV virus more strongly.
Redox potential calculations and drug discovery
07 April, 2008Using a supercomputer, reaserchers have sped up redox potential calculations for potential drugs.
Qld opens tumour-cell testing facility
06 March, 2008More effective treatments for brain cancer will be developed at a tumour-cell testing facility opened yesterday at The University of Queensland’s Queensland Brain Institute.
Increased funding for Australian health and medical research
05 February, 2008More than $124 million will be invested by the Australian Government in new medical and health research projects.
Australia and China join bird flu battle
04 February, 2008A 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).
Globetrotting rat genes reveal spread of human diseases
01 February, 2008DNA of the common Black Rat (Rattus rattus) has shed light on the history of the spread of rats, people and diseases around the globe.
Australia Day honours
30 January, 2008The Dean of the Faculty of Science and an eminent medical researcher are among four UNSW academics named on the 2008 Australia Day Honours List.
Protein discovery offers hope for prostate cancer
21 January, 2008Australian scientists are researching a possible way of making aggressive prostate cancer cells less invasive after their discovery of a protein essential for the normal functioning of cells.
