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One of the malaria parasite's best weapons against drug treatments turns out to be an Achilles' heel, which could be exploited to cure the deadly disease.
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Laura Wey has used her undergraduate research experience at ANU to help grow a better future for us all.
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International research led by ANU has found how plants, such as rice and wheat, sense and respond to extreme drought stress, in a breakthrough that could lead to the development of next-generation drought-proof crops.
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David Kainer and Carsten Kulheim have published an article in The Conversation, which describes how Australia could use the diversity of its naturally occurring eucalypts to develop and sustainably farm variants with high yields of desirable essential oils, for new commercial purposes.
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A new method to quantify plasmodesmata in leaves to compare photosynthesis transport mechanisms in C3 and C4 crops.
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Bringing together researchers from a range of fields can help solve complex problems, but research from ANU has found interdisciplinary research is consistently short changed.
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A new study into pythons and boas has for the first time found the two groups of snakes evolved independently to share similar traits.
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Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt AC will help launch a national competition for the best student entrepreneurs from Australia and France on Thursday 2 June. John Rivers (Pogson Lab, PS) is a participant.
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A new study has found that many bird species lay their eggs earlier when spring is warmer, but that the timing has no damaging impact on their overall numbers.