Treating arthritis once a year
26 September, 2014A once-a-year treatment with medicines used to treat osteoporosis shows promise for treating osteoarthritis.
Ig Nobel prizes 2014
26 September, 2014 by Akshat Rathi and Flora Lisica, The ConversationThe 24th Ig Nobel prizes were announced on 18 September. The prizes annually award scientific research that "first makes people laugh and then makes them think".
Cartilage furthers its own destruction in arthritis
23 September, 2014Cartilage plays an active role in the destruction and remodelling of joints in rheumatoid arthritis.
veski Innovation Fellowships
18 September, 2014Applications are open for the veski Innovation Fellowships that encourage international researchers to relocate to Victoria.
CRCs' time to shine
17 September, 2014 by Susan WilliamsonAn external review of the Cooperative Research Centres Program will be led by business leader David Miles.
Potential new treatment for GVHD
15 September, 2014 by Susan WilliamsonA potential new treatment option for bone marrow transplant patients who develop transplant-related chronic graft-versus-host disease will soon be tested in a clinical trial.
2014 Eureka Prizes announced
12 September, 2014The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes last night celebrated 25 years of rewarding outstanding contributions to Australian science.
Australian scientist re-elected to international science council
08 September, 2014Professor David Black has been re-elected as Secretary General of the International Council for Science.
Australia needs a science strategy
04 September, 2014Chief Scientist Ian Chubb has called for a coherent, strategic and long-term approach to science in Australia.
Experimental drug for Ebola
01 September, 2014The experimental drug ZMapp has proven effective in treating the Ebola virus in monkeys.
Don't throw out the placenta
30 August, 2014Deciphering how to extract quantities of endothelial stem cells from the placenta is providing a potential new use for an organ usually discarded.
Bone engineers
29 August, 2014A synthetic ceramic that is tough, highly porous and bioactive is being used to engineer bone.
A new angle for preventing type 1 diabetes
27 August, 2014Researchers have identified the specific portion of insulin that the immune system targets in type 1 diabetes, providing a potential pathway to improved treatments for the condition.
Regeneus, Cryosite sign stem cell alliance
22 August, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingRegeneus (ASX:RGS) and Cryosite (ASX:CTE) have agreed to share technology and expertise in the area of stem cell products for human applications.
New centre to look at how the brain works
21 August, 2014Understanding how the human brain works is the not so small task the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function is planning to tackle.
