In this post are images and short profiles on the three 2013 Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize finalists. …
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Diabetes drugs must be precisely targeted
When enzyme inhibiting drugs to treat diabetes were being developed, Mark Gorrell warned that care was needed to ensure the drugs targeted a specific enzyme, leaving other members of the enzyme family …
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Fixing the body’s leaky pipes
Centenary’s discoveries lead to a commercial agreement to create drugs to fix leaking blood vessels Australian molecular biologists led by researchers at Centenary have made a synthetic compound that …
A human systems biology centre for Sydney
Ramaciotti invests $1 million in a new approach to understanding human disease “We’ll be able to ask individual immune cells where they’ve been and who they’ve been talking to…” The University …
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Prostate cancer’s Achilles’ heel uncovered
‘The Holst effect’ opens up new therapeutic options for prostate cancer treatment. 24 September 2013 A team of researchers from Sydney, Vancouver, Adelaide and Brisbane are getting closer to a …
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Seeking creative early career scientists
Applications are now open for the $25,000 Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize for early-career biomedical researchers. We’re looking for early-career scientists in biomedical research with …
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How ‘junk DNA’ can control cell development
Researchers from the Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program at Sydney’s Centenary Institute have confirmed that, far from being “junk”, the 97 per cent of human DNA that does not encode instructions for …
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Hope for Hep C cure no excuse for risk-taking, expert warns
Australian liver disease specialists available for World Hepatitis Day interviews Exciting early indications of a cure for Hepatitis C do not mean we should become complacent about the risks of …
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The arts, business and government come together to support medical science
Sydney society unites to support Centenary Tanya Plibersek, Richard Champion de Crespigny, Justice Margaret Beazley, Tom Wenkart and many other Sydney luminaries will join Centenary Foundation …
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New immune cells hint at eczema cause
Sydney researchers have discovered a new type of immune cell in skin that plays a role in fighting off parasitic invaders such as ticks, mites, and worms, and could be linked to eczema and allergic …
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Preventable liver disease costs more than diabetes
Sydney team hopes to reduce the burden with research-led intervention 27 March 2013 Liver diseases have an impact on the Australian economy 40 per cent greater than chronic kidney disease and Type …
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Simple cough could save lives from TB
A community-wide screening program being trialled in Vietnam aims to create a new model for global TB control In the 1950s and 1960s Australians were accustomed to having regular chest x-rays in a …
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