“If you have ovarian cancer, ask your oncologistto consider a test that will help determine whether your cancer is one of just under 50 per cent that might be responsive to new treatment options such as PARPinhibitors.” That’s the message from ovarian cancer researcher Professor Anna deFazio from The Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR)…
The holy grail of healthy old age may lie in the riddle of cells that stop cancer and hasten age at the same time. Professor Judith Campisi, the head of research labs at San Francisco’s Buck Institute for Research on Ageing and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will present this research at the Inflammation in…
Unlimited clean power Sophisticated, targeted treatment for cancer; Measuring schools – is the new PISA test a wrong turn Overcoming the energy challenge with science. These and more at the national physics congress starting today in Sydney.
The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize will be announced at 12.30 pm, Thursday 15 November 2012, at a lunch at UBS in Sydney. He will receive $25,000, and a glass trophy designed by Australian sculptor Nick Mount. The 2012 finalists are: Robert McLaughlin, a medical engineer from the University of Western Australia…
Dr Kylie Mason Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research/Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia Dr Kylie Mason has set herself the goal of developing new ways of treating diseases that are considered incurable. Working as a clinician …
First posted by the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A desire to improve the survival of people with blood cancers and reduce the side-effects of their anti-cancer treatments has seen Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researcher Dr Kylie Mason today win o…
Eggs that talk to each other, the stressed hearts of the broken-hearted and online chat fighting depression are just some of the interesting stories that emerged from Australian research published in the last week. Find over a dozen other stories below.
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about diabetes in pregnancy, X-ray body scanners, the language gene, those slippery neutrinos, and more…
New technology for cleaning up nuclear spills, kids wearing the wrong seatbelts and re-writing the textbook on muscles and are just some of the stories we found interesting in Australian science in the last week.
Prostate cancers are hungry, growing cells. Now we know how to cut off their food supply thanks to research to be published later this month in Cancer Research—work funded by Movember and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia Researchers at the Centenary Institute in Sydney have discovered a potential future treatment for prostate cancer—through starving…