“If you have ovarian cancer, ask your oncologistto consider a test that will help determine whether your cancer is one of just under 50 per cent that might be responsive to new treatment options such …
Ageing answers no longer a hard cell
The holy grail of healthy old age may lie in the riddle of cells that stop cancer and hasten age at the same time. Professor Judith Campisi, the head of research labs at San Francisco’s Buck …
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Unlimited clean power; sophisticated, target treatment for cancer and more – national physics congress in Sydney
Unlimited clean power Sophisticated, targeted treatment for cancer; Measuring schools – is the new PISA test a wrong turn Overcoming the energy challenge with science. These and more at the …
Keeping our best young bioscience brains in Australia: Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize
The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize will be announced at 12.30 pm, Thursday 15 November 2012, at a lunch at UBS in Sydney. He will receive $25,000, and a glass trophy …
New treatments for blood cancers
Dr Kylie Mason has set herself the goal of developing new ways of treating diseases that are considered incurable. …
L’Oreal Fellowship winner seeks to improve blood cancer treatments
A desire to improve the survival of people with blood cancers and reduce the side-effects of their anti-cancer treatments has seen Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researcher Dr Kylie Mason today win …
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Oz research of note, 4 December, 2011
Eggs that talk to each other, the stressed hearts of the broken-hearted and online chat fighting depression are just some of the interesting stories that emerged from Australian research published in …
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Diabetes in pregnancy, X-ray body scanners, the language gene, and those slippery neutrinos
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about diabetes in pregnancy, X-ray body scanners, the language gene, those slippery neutrinos, and more… …
Oz research of note – 7 November 2011
New technology for cleaning up nuclear spills, kids wearing the wrong seatbelts and re-writing the textbook on muscles and are just some of the stories we found interesting in Australian science in …
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Starving prostate cancer
Prostate cancers are hungry, growing cells. Now we know how to cut off their food supply thanks to research to be published later this month in Cancer Research—work funded by Movember and the Prostate …
$25,000 Lawrence Creative Prize awarded for breast cancer research
Posted on behalf of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research Discovery of the cellular ‘link’ between female hormones and the development of breast cancer has earned Walter and Eliza …
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Lawrence Creative Prize finalists
The Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize is a $25,000 award for outstanding creativity in biomedical research by young scientists. Here are the three finalists. The winner will be announced …