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30 Mar 2017
Opuntia stricta (Prickly Pear) was introduced into Australia around 1840, but became a pest of epidemic proportions in the first two decades of the 20th...
27 Feb 2017
In the 1990s, Ian Morgan was working on retinal neurotransmitters, including dopamine, in RSBS. Every now and then, he came across a paper suggesting that...
20 Feb 2017
In 2000, Mandyam V. Srinivasan and colleagues showed that honeybees use the optical bypassing of the environment to measure distance. Srinivasan’s group...
14 Feb 2017
In 2015, for modelling photosynthesis, the world’s most important biological reaction, Graham Farquhar won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science.
9 Feb 2017
Hartnup disorder is a rare disorder that is caused by an inability to absorb the breakdown products of protein digestion, namely amino acids. In 2004, Stefan...
7 Feb 2017
In 1973, Lynn Dalgarno, from the ANU Department of Biochemistry, and his PhD student John Shine, proposed an initiating signal for protein synthesis in...
31 Jan 2017
Konzo is a neurological disease that causes irreversible paralysis of the legs, often in women and young children. It's caused by malnutrition and...
24 Jan 2017
The snake crown is the result of the 2015/16 collaboration between Professor Scott Keogh, herpetologist and Head of The Division of Ecology and Evolution at...
16 Nov 2016
Howard worked tirelessly to translate science into effective actions to improve the lives of some of the poorest people in the world. His passion, humour and...
12 Jan 2016
In 1989, Acting Director of RSBS, Brian Gunning, prepared an account of the first 20 years of RSBS, for submission into the review of the Institute of Advanced...
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