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3 Feb 2021
Increasing food production is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. The Australian Academy of Science has produced a video featuring researchers...
24 Jan 2019
A scientific breakthrough intended to help boost the yields of food crops has solved a long-standing question of how cyanobacteria, known as blue-...
4 Sep 2018
Scientists at ANU have engineered tiny carbon-capturing engines from blue-green algae into plants, in a breakthrough that promises to help boost the...
18 Sep 2017
The Australian National University (ANU) will help to boost food production to feed a rapidly growing world population as part of a major international...
13 Apr 2017
Carboxysomes are polyhedral protein micro-compartments in cyanobacteria which concentrate CO2 and increase the efficiency of carbon fixation. In 1993, RSBS...
21 Jul 2016
Laura Wey has used her undergraduate research experience at ANU to help grow a better future for us all.
9 Nov 2015
RSB Plant Scientist Rob Sharwood has been awarded a Thomas Davies Research Grant from the Australian Academy of Science for his proposal “Unlocking the...
25 Aug 2015
Gender balance in science has been a widely-discussed topic this National Science Week. In Canberra, two main events have focused on this issue: an exhibition...
2 Feb 2015
Congratulations to the six RSB members who have been promoted to Level E Professor as of 1 January 2015.
23 Sep 2014
It has been proposed that cyanobacteria — which obtain their energy from a highly efficient form of photosynthesis — might hold the key to increasing the yield...
19 Dec 2013
Members of the Research School of Biology will participate in three new ARC Centres of Excellence. The new ARC Centre of Excellence for the Translational...
12 Dec 2012
Plant scientists at the Research School of Biology (RSB), part of the ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, have been awarded up to $7 million to...