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The search for a malaria vaccine
Malaria is among the oldest of human diseases. There are traces of Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria, in ancient Egyptian mummies. Some records say that Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE...
Published: 24 April 2023
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UNSW researchers awarded $33m for medical research
UNSW Sydney researchers have been awarded over $33 million under the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), with projects spanning chronic lower back pain, childhood dementia,...
Published: 15 March 2023
Cell division of fission yeast
New insights into equitable and symmetric cell division
Mitochondrial distribution and interactions with microtubules at cell division dictates growth potential to daughter cells in fission yeast. In symmetric cell division, the contents of mother cells...
Published: 10 February 2023
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How HIV adapted for pandemic spread
Pandemic-causing HIV strain sneaks past cellular sensors that activate immune destruction of viruses. The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a retrovirus originally transmitted from animals to...
Published: 13 January 2023
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UNSW receives more than $17m for 41 ARC Discovery Projects
UNSW Sydney academics from the faculties of Science, Engineering, Medicine & Health, UNSW Business School, Arts, Design & Architecture, as well as UNSW Canberra, have secured funding in the...
Published: 25 November 2022
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UNSW researchers awarded more than $2.3m to build research infrastructure
The two projects aim to produce materials used in electronic, magnetic, and optical devices and infrastructure for the bioprinting of 3D models of organs and tissues.   UNSW Sydney has received more...
Published: 18 November 2022
Image - UNSW leads Australian universities, attracting $65 million in NHMRC Investigator Grants
UNSW leads Australian universities, attracting $65 million in NHMRC Investigator Grants
Research to improve treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder in refugees, define the next generation of breast cancer therapeutics and generate new health data on the ageing prison population ...
Published: 12 October 2022
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T cells use force to destroy cancer cells
New research reveals the mechanical processes used by T cells to kill cancer cells more efficiently. As a part of our immune defences, cytotoxic T cells – or killer T cells – seek out and destroy...
Published: 16 September 2022
Image - Bacterial pore formers pack a punch, one molecule at a time
Bacterial pore formers pack a punch, one molecule at a time
Dynamics of how pathogenic bacteria punch through the membranes of host cells revealed with single-molecule microscopy. Using a new single-molecule technique developed at UNSW Sydney, Australian...
Published: 25 August 2022
Artist's depiction of a DNA double helix
Demystifying DNA hybridization kinetics
UNSW Sydney researchers identify physical factors that determine how quickly two DNA strands can come together, resolving a decades-old conundrum. Nanoscientists and theoretical physicists at UNSW...
Published: 27 July 2022

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