Scientists using computer modeling to study SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, have discovered the virus is most ideally adapted to infect human cells—rather than bat or pangolin cells, again raising ...
Jun 24, 2021
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Varying immune response to vaccinations could be countered with microbiota-targeted interventions helping infants, older people and others to take full advantage of the benefits of effective vaccines, Australian and US experts ...
May 28, 2021
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Even at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, people around the world became more fearful of what could happen to them or their family.
Jan 22, 2021
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Our reluctance to think, talk or communicate about death is even more pronounced when we deal with others' loss compared to our own, new research finds, but either way we tend to frame attitudes and emotions in a sad and ...
Jan 6, 2021
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Australian research has identified a new mechanism in which prostate cancer cells can 'switch' character and become resistant to therapy.
Jan 5, 2021
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Pre-clinical research into deadly brain cancer, Parkinson's, dementia, epilepsy and other major psychiatric and neurological conditions can speed up with the global commercialisation of an advanced neuromedium, called BrainPhys.
Nov 5, 2020
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A trial of a simple yet effective surgery has led Australian experts to promote it as an option to specialists around the world for managing difficult obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) cases.
Sep 4, 2020
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Scientists at Flinders University have, for the first time, identified a specific type of sensory nerve ending in the gut and how these may 'talk' to the spinal cord, communicating pain or discomfort to the brain.
Mar 30, 2020
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Ecology researchers at Flinders University (Australia) and the University of Sheffield (UK) have proposed the "Lovebug Effect," which suggests that microbes could theoretically influence us to spend more time in nature while ...
Mar 11, 2020
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Australian researchers have identified 107 genes that increase a person's risk of developing the eye disease glaucoma, and developed a genetic test to detect those at risk of going blind from it.
Jan 21, 2020
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