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Coral chemicals protect against warming oceans

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Nature paper reveals coral animals produce the ‘smell of the ocean’ – influencing cloud formation and protecting themselves against rising seawater temperatures.

Australian marine scientists have found the first evidence that coral itself may play an important role in regulating local climate.

They have discovered that the coral animal—not just its algal symbiont—makes an important sulphur-based molecule with properties to assist it in many ways, ranging from cellular protection in times of heat stress to local climate cooling by encouraging clouds to form.

These findings have been published in the prestigious weekly science journal Nature.

Celebrating Australia’s best at the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science

Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science: Wednesday 30 October, Canberra

Later this month, the Prime Minister will announce the winners of the 2013 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science at a formal dinner in the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra.

We’re helping again with the media program for the prizes, and we’ll have profiles, print-quality photos and broadcast-quality footage available for journalists.

If you need to know who’s winning this year drop me a line on niall@scienceinpublic.com.au. We welcome the opportunity to brief longer lead-time programs and publications.

A human systems biology centre for Sydney

Ramaciotti invests $1 million in a new approach to understanding human disease

“We’ll be able to ask individual immune cells where they’ve been and who they’ve been talking to…”

The University of Sydney and The Centenary Institute will establish the Ramaciotti Centre for Human Systems Biology in 2014 following the announcement earlier this evening of the $1 million Ramaciotti Biomedical Research Award.

RIKEN and JSPS visits, sharing coral genomes, grants for Europe visits: EMBL Australia in October

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Building on mud: when can we start?

A Queensland engineer can now predict how long it takes for reclaimed land to become suitable for development, potentially saving millions of dollars in building costs.

Dr Julie Lovisa from James Cook University is using maths to determine when dredged soil is solid enough to build on.

Prostate cancer’s Achilles’ heel uncovered

‘The Holst effect’ opens up new therapeutic options for prostate cancer treatment.

24 September 2013

A team of researchers from Sydney, Vancouver, Adelaide and Brisbane are getting closer to a new treatment for prostate cancer that relies on starving tumours of essential nutrients they need to grow.

In work just published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Dr Jeff Holst, from Sydney’s Centenary Institute and his colleagues have shown they can slow the growth of the cancer by blocking the proteins which pump the amino acid leucine into tumour cells.

Seeking creative early career scientists

Applications are now open for the $25,000 Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize for early-career biomedical researchers.

We’re looking for early-career scientists in biomedical research with a uniquely creative way of significantly contributing to their chosen field. [Read more…] about Seeking creative early career scientists

Monitoring drugs at home, not the hospital

A tiny Tasmanian invention that could make personalized medication easy and affordable.

Millions of people should have their blood tested each day to check the level of prescription drug in their blood.

Some drugs are only effective within a very narrow range. Too little and the drug is ineffective, too much and the drug could be deadly.

Calling all women in physics – are you the next Prof Brian Cox?

Work with Emmy-award winning documentary maker Sonya Pemberton

The team at Genepool are looking for a female physicist to host their next international documentary series.

Partnering with Japan, understanding pathogens and more travel grants for students: EMBL Australia in September

In this month’s EMBL Australia newsletter:

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EMBARGO LIFTED: 4am AEDT, Thursday 24 October 2013

Nature paper reveals coral animals produce the ‘smell of the ocean’ – influencing cloud formation and protecting themselves against rising seawater temperatures.

Ramaciotti invests $1 million in a new approach to understanding human disease

‘The Holst effect’ opens up new therapeutic options for prostate cancer treatment.

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