Discovery of three new molecules opens door for breast, prostate cancer treatments
23 April, 2013A team of Western Australian cancer researchers interested in the strong link between hormones and cancer have discovered three new molecules that may have an important role to play in future breast and prostate cancer treatments.
Researchers find new way to clear cholesterol from the blood
12 April, 2013Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a new potential therapeutic target for lowering cholesterol that could be an alternative or complementary therapy to statins.
Are people really staring at you?
09 April, 2013People often think that other people are staring at them even when they aren’t, vision scientists have found.
Restoring near vision without glasses
02 April, 2013For middle-aged patients with presbyopia, wearing OK contact lenses overnight can restore up-close vision in one eye, according to the study by Paul Gifford, PhD, FAAO, and Helen A Swarbrick, PhD, FAAO, of University of New South Wales.
Organ preservation device is not chopped liver
25 March, 2013In a world first, a donated human liver has been ‘kept alive’ outside a human being and then successfully transplanted into a patient in need of a new liver. The procedure has been performed on two patients on the liver transplant waiting list and both are making excellent recoveries.
New malaria drug could help combat resistance
21 March, 2013Dr Aaron Nilsen and colleagues have discovered a new drug called ELQ-300 that can target multiple stages of the malaria parasite’s life cycle, including the liver stage, and could dramatically boost the prevention, treatment and transmission of disease.
Lazarus Project to bring extinct frog back to life
20 March, 2013The genome of an extinct Australian frog has been revived and reactivated by a team of scientists using sophisticated cloning technology to implant a ‘dead’ cell nucleus into a fresh egg from another frog species. The effort has been dubbed ‘the Lazarus Project’.
Insight into how first life forms were ‘born’
07 March, 2013An international team of physicists has revealed insights into how the very first life forms made the jump from the non-living to the living world by mathematically modelling biological states using energy waves called solitons.
Molecule may hold key to melanoma progression
01 March, 2013The search for new pathways to treat melanoma has unearthed a molecular target that may play an important activation role in tumour growth, according to University of Newcastle researchers.
Researchers find protein protecting against STIs
01 March, 2013Monash Institute of Medical Research (MIMR) scientists have found a protein in the female reproductive tract that protects against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as chlamydia and herpes simplex virus (HSV).
Birth order linked to increased risk of diabetes, metabolic disorders
21 February, 2013Long a source of sibling rivalry, birth order may raise the risk of first-born children developing diabetes or high blood pressure.
New hope for early diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s
18 February, 2013Flinders University researchers have discovered that a protein in the brain may play a role in the development of Parkinson’s disease, a common degenerative neurological disorder which affects the control of body movements.
New drug puts malaria under the pump
14 February, 2013Researchers have discovered how a new class of antimalarial drugs kills the malaria parasite, showing that the drugs block a pump at the parasite surface, causing it to fill with salt.
A ‘molecular fountain of youth’
04 February, 2013Sirtuin protein found to reverse age-related degeneration.
Immune cell death defects linked to autoimmune diseases
30 January, 2013Melbourne researchers have discovered that the death of immune system cells is an important safeguard against the development of diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, which occur when the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues.
