A new antimalarial drug candidate, discovered through a longstanding collaboration between WEHI and global biopharmaceutical company MSD has entered Phase 1 clinical testing in healthy participants. The candidate drug inhibits ...
Apr 6, 2023
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A landmark discovery linking iron regulation to a rare blood cancer has led to clinical trials of a potential new treatment for patients with the incurable disease.
Apr 4, 2023
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Researchers have shown that a blood test for early diagnosis of type 1 diabetes can stave off serious illness and hospitalization in children.
Nov 2, 2022
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Researchers have identified a new way to treat young children with Kawasaki disease (KD) to prevent life-threatening coronary artery damage and heart attacks.
Oct 17, 2022
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WEHI researchers have revealed that common liver diseases are not driven by inflammatory cell death as previously thought, resolving a long-standing controversy in gastroenterology and pointing to a new direction for treatment.
Oct 6, 2022
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A new discovery about how cells make antibodies has revealed the surprisingly random way the body's immune system defends against infection and disease.
Oct 4, 2022
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A powerful new genome editing technique is enabling researchers to replicate human diseases with unprecedented accuracy, promising to revolutionize the drug discovery process for a range of cancers.
Sep 21, 2022
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New research published in Clinical & Translational Immunology has identified the child cancer patients at greatest risk of developing life-threatening infections, a crucial step towards the development of an early diagnostic ...
Jul 12, 2022
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Melbourne researchers have discovered that cancer and immune cells rely on the same energy sources from our body to thrive, which could trigger a fundamental rethink of treatment options for some lung cancer patients.
Jun 30, 2022
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Researchers have developed a way to potentially reduce the toxic side-effects of a type of immunotherapy, in findings that could overcome the pioneering treatment's biggest limitation.
Jun 21, 2022
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