Consumers need protection from unrealistic claims of home genetic tests
20 August, 2010
Direct-to-consumer genetic tests provide access to a person’s genomic information without necessarily involving a doctor or insurance company in the process. Sadly, there is no guarantee that the consumer is aware of the limitations or implications of the tests.
The mathematics of fat cell formation
18 August, 2010
Scientists using mathematics to try to determine what causes the birth of a human fat cell have come up with a few predictions about the proteins that influence this process.
Do you see what I see?
03 August, 2010
An important new link between what people see and the way their minds process that visual information has been discovered.
UWA pursues safer, clean energy
03 August, 2010
The University of Western Australia’s Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems is involved in a research project aimed at securing long-term, safer and cleaner forms of energy.
Missing Puma reveals cancer conundrum
02 August, 2010
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have made a discovery that has upended scientists’ understanding of programmed cell death and its role in tumour formation.
Alzheimer research breakthrough
26 July, 2010
Researchers from the University of Sydney's Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Laboratory have achieved a breakthrough by finding the causes of Alzheimer's disease at a cellular level and thereby identifying a potential therapy as a result.
Poplar protein for better computer memory
23 July, 2010
Protein from poplar trees can be used to greatly reduce size of memory elements and increase the density of computer memory.
Australia and France join to fight disease
16 July, 2010
Australian and French researchers will be working together to fight neurodegenerative diseases, like Parkinson’s disease, thanks to funding through the 2010 French-Australian Science and Technology (FAST) Program.
Scientists design new delivery device for gene therapy
13 July, 2010
A self-destructing nanoparticle delivers genetic material deep into cells without generating an immune response.
Using ultrasound to control toxic algal blooms
13 July, 2010
Ultrasound is being investigated by University of Adelaide researchers as an environmentally friendly way of controlling blue-green algal blooms in fresh water supplies.
What came first - the chicken or the egg?
12 July, 2010
The ubiquitious egg problem - "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" - has been partially cracked.
Quantum interface between light and atoms
06 July, 2010
Physicists have developed a quantum interface which connects light particles and atoms.
Technique distinguishes between active and latent TB
06 July, 2010
An emerging technique designed to quickly distinguish between people with active and dormant tuberculosis may help health professionals diagnose the disease sooner, thereby potentially limiting early exposure to the disease, according to a study conducted by researchers at Duke University Medical Center.
Proteins may point to alcohol use test
06 July, 2010
Measuring a set of protein changes in the blood linked to alcohol use may potentially lead to a more accurate diagnostic test than those currently available.
Melbourne pathology to use microbiology system
02 July, 2010
Melbourne Pathology will be the first Australian laboratory to acquire PREVI Isola, based on LBT Innovations MicroStreak technology for automated agar plate streaking in microbiology laboratories.
