Dr Maria Di Biase has created a ‘brain bank’ of schizophrenia: blobs of brain cells from 100 patients, growing in the lab. She’s using these brain organoids to develop urgently needed new approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Schizophrenia affects about one in 300 people worldwide. It usually manifests in adolescence. People with schizophrenia lose an…
Waking up brain stem cells at the right time could one day improve cognition and fight neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, according to Dr Lachlan Harris, a researcher at QIMR Berghofer in Brisbane Right now, most of the stem cells in your brain have been hibernating for months or years. Without periods of this sleep-like state,…
Highlights from the final day of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. NSW: Follow food from lips to lavatory in the giant inflatable Poo Palace – Newcastle NSW: Meet a life-sized Australovenator dinosaur at Science in the Swamp – Centennial Park, Sydney ACT: Dancers with disability…
Highlights from day 8 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. TAS: Beaker Street Festival hits a climax with an evening of sex, science and a giant clitoris puppet – Hobart WA: Female fossil rockers bring a palaeo-music show to Perth QLD: Touring multisensory Quantum Year…
Highlights from day 7 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. NATIONAL: Incredibly weird and wonderful. The winner of ‘Australia’s most underrated animal’, by public vote, will be revealed today TAS: Experimenting with beer – Hobart NSW: Step inside a giant, woolly knitted gut – Gymea…
Highlights from day 6 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. NATIONAL: Space farmers and foodies wanted ACT: Frog saunas and spa treatments fight deadly fungus – Canberra NSW: Psychedelics, flicker light therapy, hypnosis, meditation: meet the scientist working at the edge of consciousness – Sydney…
Highlights from day 5 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. QLD: 3D-printed pills, skin patches and nanomedicine in a Brisbane lab. NT: How the birds got their colours: Dreamtime through circus and dance in Darwin. NATIONAL: Parenting lessons from quokkas, emus, rakali and more –…
Highlights from day 3 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. WA/NATIONAL: Space farmers wanted! Sow astro seeds and test complex off-planet crop growing conditions to nourish astronauts on Mars and beyond at in-person events in Perth or join the national ‘Grow for launch’ program online….
Highlights from day 2 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. TAS: Top Gear star James May pulls into Hobart during his ‘Explorers – The Age of Discovery’ tour. VIC: Why the gut-immune-brain axis is beautiful and vital – images captured by Melbourne researchers. ACT: Dancers…
Highlights from day 1 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. NATIONAL: Australia is big and full of wild things! CSIRO wants volunteers to find and photograph our flora and fauna. TAS: Why Tasmania is the best place on Earth to see the Southern Lights at…