We’re assisting with media liaison for the 7th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics next week. We understand that you will be speaking at a session of the conference. We’re working with the organising committee to bring the ideas and issues discussed at the conference to a wide public audience via media and social…
Flow chemistry trial will test new way to make drugs locally and fast Australia may soon be able to produce essential drugs – including anaesthetics and treatments for antibiotic resistant superbugs – rapidly and entirely onshore, ending the need to import them. A collaboration between Melbourne chemical company Boron Molecular and DMTC Ltd (formerly the…
Story for NHMRC, published in 2020 A clinical trial made for a pandemic is racing for answersOver 180 intensive care units in 14 countries are trialling more than 20 pneumonia treatments to save the lives of critically ill COVID-19 patients. The trial, REMAP-CAP, is an adaptive clinical trial built to deliver fast results in a…
Official site at www.nhmrc.gov.au/alcohol. Copies of all resources for media available here. Supporting materials Infographics Media release follows National Health and Medical Research Council confirms new national guidelines for reducing the health risks from drinking alcohol. The guidelines are the result of four years of extensive review of the evidence on the harms and benefits…
Content available: – Image and caption, – Extended quotes from selected authors as supplementary content, – Genepool release – Filmmaker becomes co-author on paper published in top international journal, ‘Science’,– Paper details– Media release below Ethical and social implications of powerful DNA-altering technology are too important to be left to scientists and politicians, researchers find….
Seoul firm KISCO and CSIRO invest in Melbourne’s Boron Molecular, taking CSIRO precision chemistry to new global customers Media contacts Images and captions Video footage KISCO media release in English, in Korean (available 4pm AEST, 9 July) Background links Launch: 3pm KST, 4pm AEST, Thursday 9 July 2020, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Seoul and via ZoomWith…
A proof-of-concept published in Nature promises warmer, cheaper and more robust quantum computing. And it can be manufactured using conventional silicon chip foundries. Full media kit here. Most quantum computers being developed around the world will only work at fractions of a degree above absolute zero. That requires multi-million-dollar refrigeration and as soon as you…
Public events in Sydney 11 Nov, Melbourne 18 Nov and online Case studies/patients also available from the Mito Foundation. The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is inviting all Australians to provide their views on the use of a new assisted reproductive technology that might assist in preventing certain rare mitochondrial diseases but which…
For information about the 2019 Prizes please visit www.industry.gov.au/pmscienceprizes. We had a great run with the Prizes from 2004 to 2018. But all good things come to an end. So please don’t contact us for media information, go straight to the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science at media@industry.gov.au. We will be at the dinner…
Australian-led astronomers find the most iron-poor star in the Galaxy, hinting at the nature of the first stars in the Universe. A newly discovered ancient star containing a record-low amount of iron carries evidence of a class of even older stars, long hypothesised but assumed to have vanished. In a paper published in the journal…