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(Not) curing cancer only part of the story
Terry Speed accepts he’s never going to see the headline ‘statistician cures cancer’.
First vaccine and treatment against Hendra virus
With a human death rate over 50 per cent and an ability to cross species, the Hendra virus that emerged in 1994 had frightening potential.
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How flies can help us predict the future
Our planet’s climate is changing. How will bees cope—will they still be able to pollinate our crops? Will dengue and malaria-carrying mosquitoes spread south?
Worm spit that heals then kills
Cairns researchers have discovered a wound-healing and cancer-causing hormone in the spit of a liver worm that lives in over nine million people and infects adventurous Australian tourists.
Future fuels will come in orange flavour
Queensland researchers are persuading baker’s yeast to produce jet fuel from sugar.
How do bees choose a new home?
Not all honeybee species think like the common western hive bee when it comes to deciding on a place to nest. Some are capable of making faster collective decisions, according to James Makinson and his University of Sydney and Thai university colleagues.
Cannibalistic cancer eats itself to survive treatment
Stubborn cancer cells play a cunning trick when faced with treatments designed to kill them—they eat themselves to survive. But Lisa Schafranek has found a way to starve the cancer cells, making them more susceptible to cancer therapy.
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Acid oceans and a symphony
The oceans around East Antarctica are becoming acidic at a faster rate than expected, and could become toxic to some forms of marine life in the next 15 years.
Jetlag skin patch may prevent brain damage in newborns
Melatonin patches could help improve the outcome for babies starved of oxygen at birth, says James Aridas from Monash University.
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