Chemistry

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Associate Professor Azure Hermes inside a medical research laboratory

The National Centre for Indigenous Genomics is working with Indigenous communities on the ethical and respectful use of the stories held within DNA.

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Woman by a microscope

Physicists have pioneered a new method for making a rare form of silicon, prized for its remarkable properties. It's work that took ten years to come to fruition.

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Nhung Nghiem and Mark Polizzotto are seated in an office and talking to each other..

ANU researchers and global partners are launching a clinical trial to improve treatment for Kaposi sarcoma, one of the most common and deadly cancers in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Dr Martyna Judd in the chemistry foyer.

Just like how GPS triangulates your location using satellites, scientists can now place labels at different positions around the surface of a protein to visualise drug-binding interactions more clearly.

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using a bioprinter in a lab

These scientists can 3D-print living cells – a first step to printing our own organs.

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future crops

Take a look at the next generation of crop science in the field, as scientists tour an Agricultural Institute in Wagga Wagga.

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Woman with toy tasmanian devils

Scientists from all over the world have been racing to understand the fundamentals of Devil Facial Tumour Disease and find a way to stop it. One of them is Yi Ning (Sabrina) Fu, a recent Honours graduate at JCSMR.

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A smiling woman sitting at a desk in an office

You know your attachment style, your love language, and you can spot all the red flags. But when it comes to predicting if your relationship will truly stand the test of time, there’s one element you might have overlooked: the strength of your collective identity, or 'we-ness'.

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Associate Professor Tamás Fischer inside a research laboratory

Could tiny ‘molecular robots’ made from RNA provide personalised cancer treatments – without the harmful side effects?

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