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'Jumping genes' leap across species, driving evolution
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have traced two particular genes across 759 species of plants, animals and fungi. [ + ]
Senate committee recommends legalising mitochondrial donation
Australian women at risk of having babies suffering severe mitochondrial disease may soon be able to have healthy children. [ + ]
Scientists successfully sequence the koala genome
Scientists have sequenced the full koala genome — a breakthrough which may aid in the treatment of disease and help inform conservation efforts. [ + ]
Enzymes enable faster, cheaper, more accurate DNA synthesis
The idea of using an enzyme to make DNA is not new — scientists have been trying for decades to find a way to do it, without success. [ + ]
The power of cross-disciplinary collaboration
Paul Young, Professor of Virology and Head of School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, reflects on his long and rewarding career in virology and the exciting opportunities in the field. [ + ]
Tracking pancreatic cancer's moving targets
For the first time, researchers have monitored drug-resistant regions in pancreatic tumours as they travel, spread and grow in real time — and are finding new ways to neutralise these moving targets. [ + ]
Tackling antibiotic resistance, one piece of possum poo at a time
A citizen science project led by Macquarie University is seeking answers to antibiotic resistance in one of the most unlikely places you could imagine — possum poo. [ + ]
Crowdsourcing security intelligence
Inspired by how bees make collective decisions, researchers are exploring how crowdsourcing techniques may help intelligence analysts produce the best-reasoned analysis from the available data. [ + ]
Drug-carrying nanoparticles designed to treat brain cancer
The newly developed nanoparticles are designed so that they can easily cross the blood-brain barrier and bind directly to tumour cells, where they deliver two different drugs. [ + ]
Super-multiplexed fluorescence microscopy
A new bleaching-assisted multichannel microscopy (BAMM) technique improves the quality and quantity of information captured in fluorescence microscopy. [ + ]
Millions of single cells can now be analysed simultaneously
Researchers have developed a sophisticated computational framework to analyse single-cell gene expression levels, scalable to process millions of individual cells. [ + ]
How did the human brain get so big?
Over 3 million years of evolution, the human brain underwent a considerable increase in size and complexity, resulting in the exceptional cognitive abilities we have today. [ + ]
Australian Society For Microbiology 2018 to be held next month
The Australian Society for Microbiology would like to invite you to Queensland for its Annual Scientific Meeting and Trade Exhibition. This year, the meeting will be held in Queensland's capital city, Brisbane, from 1–4 July. [ + ]
Kidney disease trial shows two drugs are better than one
Clinical-stage biotech company Dimerix is on a mission to treat chronic kidney disease and, with the help of lead therapeutic candidate DMX-200, it just might succeed. [ + ]
The hidden costs of NGS
The $100 genome era is said to be upon us. But is it really? [ + ]
