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Unravelling the impacts of space travel
A UNSW Sydney researcher has been awarded a $1m grant by the US Air Force to investigate what happens to earthly life in reduced gravity. Associate Professor Kate Poole from UNSW Medicine &...
Published: 27 November 2023
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UNSW receives more than $20m for 38 ARC Discovery Projects
The grants will support research in science, engineering, medicine, business, sociology, and defence. UNSW Sydney academics from the faculties of Science, Engineering, Medicine & Health, UNSW...
Published: 2 November 2023
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UNSW researcher awarded $1m NSW Health cardiovascular grant
The grant will be used to develop an AI tool that helps identify more effective treatments for failing hearts. UNSW Associate Professor Izzy Jayasinghe has been awarded a $1 million NSW Health...
Published: 25 October 2023
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Targeted Next- Generation DNA Sequencing to Improve Newborn Screening
A world-first feasibility study conducted in Australia via a public and private sector collaboration, has realised the potential of DNA sequencing to expand and improve population newborn screening....
Published: 1 August 2023
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Inclusion at the heart of discovery science
Whether it is in research or academic leadership, Dr Izzy Jayasinghe, the incoming Head of UNSW Sydney’s Department of Molecular Medicine, is breaking down barriers that limit scientific research....
Published: 29 June 2023
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Machine learning to chart intracellular landmarks
Researchers develop an AI tool – with high-resolution images showing many proteins inside human cell lines – to generate cellular maps with intricate detail of the organization of organelles and...
Published: 6 June 2023
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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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