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Ability Optics lights up a faster, clearer future for biotech

ANU spinoff company Ability Optics Pty Ltd is accelerating to revolutionise biotechnology with an aim to speed up early lead drug screening by 100-fold.

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Tuesday, 04 Mar 2025
  • News

ANU spinoff company Ability Optics Pty Ltd is accelerating to revolutionise biotechnology with an aim to speed up early lead drug screening by 100-fold.

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Friday, 28 Feb 2025
  • News

Researchers have discovered a powerful “weapon” used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples could offer new strategies to bolster global food security.

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bees
Friday, 28 Feb 2025
  • Analysis and opinion

We’ve all heard honeybees are in trouble – but what’s going on and what can we do about it? Beekeepers could have the answers.

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Friday, 28 Feb 2025
  • News

The world’s foremost technical organisation has given the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) at the ANU Research School of Physics global recognition for its technical significance.

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A woman at a piano, singing
Wednesday, 26 Feb 2025
  • Student profile

As part of her PhD at the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology, Katrina Rivera is researching music performance anxiety. “There’s so much judgement about music ingrained into our society," she says. As a result, many people will choose simply not to perform music at all.

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Wednesday, 26 Feb 2025
  • News

New ANU research suggests intelligence in fish isn't only driven by their need to find food or avoid predators, but also their desire to find love.

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Paul Siwabessy
Monday, 24 Feb 2025
  • Student profile

Paul Siwabessy is pursuing a Master of Public Health at the Australian National University degree at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH)

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Artist's reconstruction of Palaeospondylus as an agnathan.
Monday, 24 Feb 2025
  • Analysis and opinion

A new paper documents a highly enigmatic tiny “fish” fossil from a remote location close to the Northern Territory border. This animal lived in the shallow margins of a marine environment about 400 million years ago.

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Wednesday, 19 Feb 2025
  • Research story

For an ANU biologist, what started as a routine glance at a butterfly specimen has ended with the discovery of a masterful deception, decades in the making.

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