Dr Scott Ayton

Head of Translational Neurodegeneration laboratory, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Deputy Director, Melbourne Dementia Research Centre, and Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

An unexpected find opens a new way to regulate blood pressure

In what could be a new pathway for drug therapies to treat hypertension, a team of brain researchers have discovered that zinc plays a key role in lowering blood pressure

Health & Medicine

‘Rusty’ brains linked to Alzheimer’s

The discovery that high iron levels in the brain can lead to the onset of the devastating disease may pave the way for a treatment