Developing a faster diagnosis of bacterial meningitis
22 April, 2013Using joint funding from the Paige Weatherspoon Foundation and the Macquarie University Office of Commercialisation, a team of researchers have recently made headway in developing a faster diagnosis for bacterial meningitis.
‘Free’ self-cooling, thermoelectric system developed
15 April, 2013Researchers at the UPNA/NUP-Public University of Navarre have produced a prototype of a self-cooling thermoelectric device that achieves ‘free’ cooling of over 30°C in devices that give off heat. It is a piece of equipment that acts as a traditional cooler but which consumes no electricity because it obtains the energy it needs to function from the very heat that has to be dissipated.
Rapid test device has global impact
15 April, 2013Two engineers have changed the way blood is collected and tested thanks to a world-first, fully integrated rapid test device, designed and developed in Australia.
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.
Screening human blood for disease markers
25 March, 2013Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute in Florida have developed cutting-edge technology that can successfully screen human blood for disease markers. This tool may hold the key to better diagnosing and understanding today’s most pressing and puzzling health conditions, including autoimmune diseases.
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.
Plant scientist off to study US corn as Fulbright scholar
25 March, 2013A young plant biologist who developed a passion for the environment when he took up surfing in primary school has been awarded a 2013 Fulbright Western Australia Scholarship to undertake research in the US.
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’.
Saliva test could detect early stages of HPV-linked oral cancer
14 March, 2013The University of Queensland has received a major funding boost to its development of a saliva test to diagnose the early stages of head and neck cancer linked to human papillomavirus (HPV).
Type 1 diabetes testing could become faster, cheaper
11 March, 2013Work by Perth researchers could revolutionise testing for type 1 diabetes around the world.
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.
