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Scientist in full PPE in a clean room lab

Researchers at ANU played a pivotal role in the first detection of gravitational waves. Here's what it felt like to be involved in such a groundbreaking global scientific discovery.

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Dr Si Ming Man from The John Curtin School of Medical Research.

An immune protein could hold the key to developing new drugs to help fight bowel cancer.

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A bowl of soup, with numbers floating in the soup. There is also a spoon with a whole in it, the soup is spilling out from the hole with the number 100+.

Following a Blue Zone lifestyle is purported to help extend your lifespan. But do the numbers add up?

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Dog and woman

This frisbee-obsessed, four-legged ecologist has a special role to play in her owner's PhD research.

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Microscopic view of dead cells.

Leading researchers in innate immunity offer new perspectives into the messages dying or dead cells convey to the immune system.

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Dr Teresa Bonello from the Genome Sciences and Cancer Division at JCSMR.

Dr Bonello is exploring the crucial elements of the tumour microenvironment.

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Dr Vicki Athanasopoulos in a lab at JCSMR.

The findings could lead to new and tailored treatments for Sjogren’s Syndrome and lupus.

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Professor Thomas Preiss in a lab at the John Curtin School of Medical Research.

JCSMR researchers have received a $4 million boost thanks to the Australian Government’s MRFF National Critical Infrastructure Initiative.

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