Wild wheat holds secrets to bespoke bread
For clues to making better bread, you need to take a walk on the wild side. That’s the message from Murdoch University researchers, who have been looking for ways...
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Researchers use drones and AI to help endangered dugongs
They’re the cows of our oceans – plump, placid and peacefully grazing on grasses in shallow sea waters. But...
Australian drug helps US Duchenne sufferers
Sixteen-year-old Billy Ellsworth suffers from Duchenne – a fatal condition that leads to severe muscle weakness and which typically...
‘Whispering’ keeps baby humpbacks safe
Humpback whale mothers and their newborn calves ‘whisper’ to each other during the first months of the calves’ life...
Parkinson’s partly an autoimmune disease, study finds
Therapies that dampen the immune response may prevent the death of neurons in Parkinson’s disease, the neurodegenerative movement disorder....
Computer modelling predicts kidney stones
New computer modelling developed by a team at Murdoch University could help prevent kidney stones, a significant and painful...
Sawfish exposed as the ultimate stealth hunter
The lethal side-swipes of a sawfish’s distinctive snout (or rostrum) are barely detectable to their prey, new research has...
License to krill: WA hotspot good news for ocean dwellers
The waters off Western Australia are home to 40 per cent of the world’s krill species, a Murdoch University...
Murdoch Uni cancer researchers strike gold with eucalyptus
The new gold nano-particle production method, developed by a team lead by Dr Gerrard Eddy Poinern of the Murdoch...