Biology

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Sciences & Technology

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Under the Microscope

Healing wounds with differential equations

Professor Jennifer Flegg uses mathematics to solve biological problems like wound healing and infectious diseases

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Sciences & Technology

Insects have more complex immune systems than we thought

Ants, beetles, and all other invertebrates have complex immune systems which can protect their offspring

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Sciences & Technology

The fly DNA fighting killer bacteria

The genome of an Australian fly has won an evolutionary “arms race” against a killer bacteria by evolving to co-exist with it

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Sciences & Technology

Understanding how a cell becomes a person - with maths

There are trillions of cells in the human body, and researchers are developing new mathematics to understand how they work

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Sciences & Technology

How plants tell time

Unlike us, plants can’t head to the fridge for a midnight snack, but a new study shows they sense time at dusk to conserve energy produced from sunlight during the day

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Sciences & Technology

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Under the Microscope

The mathematics of evolution

Dr Jared Field’s work in mathematical biology is trying to understand real-world issues – from sleep and menopause, to the hard science behind traditional Indigenous practices

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Sciences & Technology

New dimensions in colour

Animals like beetles and birds are teaching us new ways of understanding colour at a nanoscale, which could change the way we manufacture it

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Health & Medicine

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Podcast

Molecules in motion

Why Cryo-EM, or speed-freezing molecules to create 3D images that can diagnose human cell behaviour, is taking the structural biology world by storm

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Sciences & Technology

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Podcast

Standing up for science

Nobel Laureate Professor Randy Schekman on the value of scepticism, and why the scientific method needs to be defended now more than ever

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Environment

Engineering plants for a sustainable future

Scientists have discovered the genetic master switches for a plant’s body mass production and it brings with it the potential to produce new biomaterials and bioplastics

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