Aussie doctor quietly responsible for a 1926 iteration of the pacemaker
Mark Lidwill, who received his MD from the University of Sydney way back in 1911, designed and patented a machine responsible for the first pacing of the heart using...
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Smile – our teeth could hold the key to treating strokes
Adelaide University’s Centre for Stem Cell Research have been conducting studies on stem cells from teeth and have found...
A Queensland Uni cervical cancer vaccine is changing the world – one woman at a time
The technology which led to the cervical cancer vaccines we know today, Gardasil™ and Cervarix™, was first developed and...
World first research from Sydney Uni finds no link between autism and childhood vaccinations.
The study, lead by Associate Professor Guy Eslick from the Sydney Medical School, looked to find a statistically significant...
New anti-Leukaemia drug out of Monash Uni moving to phase 2 clinical trials.
Associate Professor Martin Lackmann and his team at Monash University’s School of Biomedical Sciences have spent the past 15 years...
La Trobe University researchers look to unlikely hero in the fight against cancer
Scientists at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science have identified that a molecule occurring in the flower of the tobacco...
Revolutionary childhood cancer treatment set to be fast-tracked by Australian research alliance.
The new anti-cancer therapy is being brought to patients with the help of the Children’s Oncology Drug Alliance (CODA)...
New research investigates the effectiveness of Emu oil in the fight against bowel cancer.
Dr Mashtoub, from the School of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Western Australia, has been studying the...
Macquarie Uni team brings us one step closer to personalised medicine.
A team of Macquarie Uni researchers, led by Dr Yiqing Lu, have developed a new method for detecting several...
Swinburne University on new technique to detect and prevent food-borne diseases like listeria
Listeria can be found in a wide range of foods, including milk, soft cheeses and pate. In some cases,...