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Changing the mechanical properties of elastic micropillars that cells are grown on can tune mechanical signalling (setup and microscopy image shown)
Mechanical Tuning of the Senses
Physical changes in the surrounding microenvironment of cells, in the absence of any other modifications, are enough to affect the way they sense touch, a UNSW Medicine research shows. “Individual...
Published: 6 November 2019
The new sensor detected the binding of host proteins with the HIV capsid tubes
A novel biosensor to monitor interactions between HIV-1 and host proteins created by UNSW Sydney researchers
Using single-molecule fluorescence imaging, UNSW Medicine researchers have developed a biosensor to track dynamic protein-protein interactions in real-time between the human immunodeficiency virus (...
Published: 6 September 2019
The new sensor detected the binding of host proteins with the HIV capsid tubes
Novel biosensor to monitor interactions between HIV and host proteins created by UNSW Sydney researchers
Using single-molecule fluorescence imaging, UNSW Medicine researchers have developed a biosensor to track dynamic protein-protein interactions in real-time between the human immunodeficiency virus (...
Published: 6 September 2019
Image - Research Strikes a Chord for Singing Irish Student
Research Strikes a Chord for Singing Irish Student
Sue Min Liu Trinity College Dublin student Karl Hegarty is singing his way around the world with acapella group, the Trinitones, but stops off in Australia to broaden his scientific horizons with a...
Published: 6 August 2019
Image - UNSW researchers finalists in 2019 ‘Oscars’ of Australian science
UNSW researchers finalists in 2019 ‘Oscars’ of Australian science
Leading UNSW Sydney medical researchers are finalists at the 2019 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, Australia's most high-profile science awards. Programs to eliminate tuberculosis globally, bringing...
Published: 31 July 2019
Microscopy image of T cells with chimeric antigen receptors. Different elements are fluorescently tagged; a negative regulator in blue, and a recruited enzyme in yellow
Tinkering with toy CARs to improve immune cell signalling
To understand precisely how the T cell receptor operates to drive an immune response – or decide to remain at rest – Dr Jesse Goyette examines individual components of the T cell receptor to decipher...
Published: 4 April 2019
Blood cells
Australia’s First Deformability Cytometer
A novel tool to dissect cancer development and diagnosis Cancer researchers in Sydney will soon have access to a deformability cytometer to accelerate their research. This instrument—the first of its...
Published: 14 March 2019
A Wellcome Trust grant has been awarded to UNSW Sydney and UK researchers for HIV-1 research
4.6 Million Dollar Wellcome Trust Funding for HIV Research
UNSW Sydney and British Researchers have secured over AUD 4.6 million dollars (£2.5 million) of competitive funding from the Wellcome Trust, over five years, to study how the pandemic human...
Published: 8 March 2019
Image of nerve cell in which the movement of amyloid beta peptides are tracked
Capturing How Amyloid Beta Initiates Death of Neuronal Cells With High-Speed Imaging
Researchers from UNSW Sydney and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India shed new light on how amyloid beta – a peptide associated with Alzheimer’s disease – kills nerve cells. By...
Published: 4 March 2019
Photo of Dr Vaibhav Shah
Funding to forge a cross-pacific alliance against emerging HIV-1 variants
UNSW researcher Dr Vaibhav Shah has been awarded a fellowship from the Australia- India Strategic Research Fund to study an emerging form of the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV-1 subtype C. To date...
Published: 1 February 2019

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