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Three teams receive Bisciotti Foundation Translational Fund grants

Mar 17, 2022

Three Johns Hopkins professors and a School of Medicine fellow have received grants for their research through the Bisciotti Foundation Translational Fund. Each applicant has made a report of invention...

VIU Welcomes Award-winning Researcher and Neuroscientist

Mar 17, 2022

Dr. Sandy Shultz has received a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award to continue his research at VIU. Improving treatment for people with traumatic brain injuries is the...

Computer scientist identifies JavaScript vulnerability in thousands of websites

Mar 17, 2022

But according to Johns Hopkins researchers, thousands of JavaScript websites are vulnerable to a security flaw that could result in manipulating the site's URL or stealing a user's profile information....

ANU researchers strike gold with science academy honours

Mar 17, 2022

A scientist whose research has shed light on how gold forms in hot springs around volcanoes is one of four researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) to receive honours...

Bond University offers free flood trauma counselling

Mar 17, 2022

The School of Psychology at Bond University is offering free mental health counselling to people directly affected by the floods in NSW and Queensland. Associate Professor Peta Stapleton said the...

Programming the Immune System to Supercharge Cancer Cell Therapies

Mar 17, 2022

The first FDA-approved gene therapies are living drugs: immune cells taken from cancer patients engineered to target tumor cells. In the journal Nature, the researchers describe the discovery of synthetic...

ANU experts on the 2022 federal budget

Mar 17, 2022

With the 2022 federal budget to be delivered on 29 March, The Australian National University (ANU) has a range of experts who can speak to media about the budget and...

Hoverfly brains mapped to detect sound of distant drones

Mar 17, 2022

15 March 2022For the first time, Australian researchers have reverse engineered the visual systems of hoverflies to detect drones’ acoustic signatures from almost four kilometres away. “Bio-vision processing has been...

Stealth nanomedicines combat cancer and cut toxic effects of chemo

Mar 17, 2022

10 March 2022Nanomedicines – typically drugs hidden within nanoscopic fatty membranes (‘liposomes’) – have potential to transform chemotherapy treatments, improving drug delivery and reducing toxic side effects for thousands of...

Staying alive, Arabian oryx style

Mar 17, 2022

In a world-first, the DNA of a vulnerable species, the iconic Arabian Oryx, has been decoded. The Arabian oryx, a kind of antelope, became extinct in the wild in 1972...