Keeping our best young bioscience brains in Australia
Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize to be announced today The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize will be […]
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Lawrence Creative Prize finalists
The Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize is a $25,000 award for outstanding creativity in biomedical research by young scientists. Here
Prime Minister's Prizes for Science, Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science 2011
A new chlorophyll – redefining photosynthesis: 2011 Science Minister’s Prize for Life Scientist of the Year
Min Chen Among the single-celled cyanobacteria—formerly known as blue-green algae—which live in the ancient rock-like accumulations called stromatolites in Shark
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Revealing the dark side – in Tasmania this week
What we see in the night sky is only five per cent of the Universe. So what’s the other 95 per cent of the Universe made of – a young physicist has the answers across Tasmania this week. One of Australia’s leading young physicists will reveal the…
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How our liver kills “killer cells”
High resolution images Liver factsheet Paper citation and abstract Our livers can fight back against the immune system – reducing
Women in Science
Five years of L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellows
2011 marks the fifth year that L’Oréal Australia will award its For Women in Science Fellowships to Australian early-career female scientists. Since its inception in 2007, the Fellowships, worth $20,000 each, have been awarded to 14 outstanding fema…
Humanity +
Humanity + – a free public forum on nanotechnologies and their implications
Nanotechnologies are changing our world, soon they’ll be transforming our bodies. Free public forum, Oceans Bar, Crown Plaza Hotel, Coogee
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Tammar wallaby’s clever immune tricks revealed
Two thymus glands fast-track immune defences
Baby wallaby photos available
Until now, it was a mystery why many marsupials have two thymuses—key organs in the immune system—instead of the one typical of other mammals. Now postdoctoral researcher Dr Emily Wong from the University of Sydney and her colleagues have found that the two organs are identical, which […]
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Single electron reader opens path for quantum computing
Australian engineers and physicists have developed a ‘single electron reader’, one of the key building blocks needed to make a
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Single electron reader opens path for quantum computing
A team led by UNSW engineers and physicists have developed one of the key building blocks needed to make a