Coral, Cancer Capsules & Conservation Three $20,000 L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowships for 2011 were awarded to talented Australian women in science on Tuesday, 23 August …
A smarter way to deliver drugs
Georgina Such The University of Melbourne Smart capsules could change the way we deliver drugs. Today, when we’re treated for cancer, the drug spreads throughout the body indiscriminately. Along the …
2011 award ceremony photos
The three L'Oréal Australia For Women In Science Fellows for 2011 received their awards on Tuesday 23 August at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. A professional photographer took …
L’Oréal Australia Girls in Science forum
On Wednesday 24 August the three L'Oréal Fellows visited the Australian Synchrotron for the L'Oréal Australia Girls in Science school forums. The three fellows presented their research to over 160 …
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Five years of L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellows
2011 marks the fifth year that L’Oréal Australia will award its For Women in Science Fellowships to Australian early-career female scientists. Since its inception in 2007, the Fellowships, worth …
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Match your treatment to your cancer
Cell death genes essential for cancer therapy identified. New research has uncovered why certain cancers don’t respond to conventional chemotherapy, highlighting the need to match treatments to …
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Understanding the link between HIV and dementia
HIV can hide out in the brain, protected from the immune system and antiviral drugs, Dr Lachlan Gray and his colleagues at Monash University and the Burnet Institute have found. …
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Printing solar cells
Australian researchers have invented nanotech solar cells that are thin, flexible and use 1/100th the materials of conventional solar cells. …
A little lupin improves the bread of life
In flour it reduces heart disease risk say Melbourne and WA researchers You can lower your risk of heart disease significantly, just by using flour containing 40 per cent lupin beans in the place …
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A smart bandage reveals healing
Melbourne researchers have developed smart bandages that change colour to reveal the state of the wound beneath. Their invention could reduce the $500 million cost of chronic wound care in …
L’Oréal helps out with rewarding research
Life on other planets, sex determination in marsupials, the links between genetics and mental health—that’s the breadth of research spanned by the four Australians and one New Zealander, life …
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Backgrounder: How do we kill rogue cells?
A molecular assassin literally punches its way into rogue cells say a team of Melbourne and London researchers. Their discovery is published today in Nature. More effective treatments for …
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