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Amber Condell likes stories - both hearing them and telling them. That’s why she likes studying genetics.
A study led by researchers at ANU could lead to new treatments for combating drug-resistant malaria, as well as boost existing drugs.
In fiction and popular culture, parasitic characters appear as a metaphor for the threat and spread of disease.
My group focuses on understanding the function of integral membrane transporters and receptors from a structural perspective.
Professor Geoff McFadden has been awarded the Ralph Slatyer Medal for research in understanding the malaria parasite.
Stefan Bröer is looking for the right molecule for a biological target, that could be developed into a drug to treat diabetes. Now ANU has its own library of compounds, available to biological and medical researchers, managed by the Research School of Chemistry.
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B0AT1 (Slc6a19) is a sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter catalyzing the secondary active transport of neutral amino acids across the brush border membrane of the kidney and intestine.
Malaria is an ancient disease leading to the death of more than half a million people every year.
Bacterial flagella self-assemble a strong, multi-component drive shaft that couples rotation in the inner membrane to the microns-long flagellar filament that powers bacterial swimming in viscous fluids.
The antimalarial drug amodiaquine has been around for nearly 60 years during which time it has been deployed as a monotherapy, then removed from recommendations due to toxicity fears, re-instated, and is now deployed in artemisinin-based combinations therapies to combat malaria.
As you read this abstract, your lungs are (I hope!) bringing live-sustaining oxygen into your body. Oxygen is required by our cells for one key purpose – to act as the final electron acceptor in the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC).
Shigella flexneri is an entero-pathogen that is considered a significant public health risk, causing shigellosis or bacillary dysentery, and accounts for the highest percentage of diarrheal deaths annually.