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News

Tuesday, 18 Dec 2018

Aude Fahrer's work aims to activate the immune cells responsible for attacking cancer, in a simple, low cost way.

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Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018

Alex Maier has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology.

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Thursday, 23 Aug 2018

They say leaders are born not made, but it seems the opposite is true for queen bees, according to a new study by researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) and Queen Mary University of London.

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Tuesday, 27 Feb 2018

New research from The Australian National University (ANU) has drilled down to the molecular level to find similarities across six pharmaceutical drugs used in pain relief, dentist anaesthetic, and treatment of epilepsy, in a bid to find a way to reduce unwanted side-effects.

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Linden Muellner-Wong received her RSB Director's Prize in Honours award from RSB Director, Allen Rodrigo. Image Sharyn Wragg.
Tuesday, 13 Feb 2018

Linden Muellner-Wong has won a 2017 RSB Director's Prize in Honours.

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Tuesday, 08 Aug 2017

Although significant advances in malaria control have been made in the past few decades, resistance to our current antimalarial drug repertoire threatens control efforts.

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Events

25 Aug 2022 | 3pm

Developing novel synthetic microbes for the sustainable production of biochemical, biofuels and bioplastics is critical for the emergence of a new global bioeconomy.

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4 Aug 2022 | 1pm

One of the most fundamental assumptions in biology is that the amino acid sequence defines protein structure and that this sequence carries no memory of the specific mRNA codon sequence from which it was translated.

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22 Jul 2022 | 1pm

Mitochondrial diseases (MDs) are the largest and most common group of inherited metabolic disorders. They comprise over 350 monogenic diseases and affect at least one child born each week in Australia.

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7 Jul 2022 | 3pm

Nutritional deficiencies are a leading cause of human susceptibility to infectious diseases and antibiotic treatment failure. Specifically, our intake of dietary lipids has changed dramatically, yet microbe-lipid interactions during infection are poorly understood.

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22 Jun 2022 | 3 - 4pm

Bacterial infections remain a global public health challenge and there is a critical need for the identification and molecular understanding of new targets for antimicrobial design.

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9 Jun 2022 | 1pm

Current treatments for malaria are threatened by drug resistance, and new antimalarials are urgently required to ensure the continued ability to treat malaria infections into the future.

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