Cells

Health & Medicine

From burnout to endurance: Coaching immune cells to go the distance

A new understanding of how the immune system sustains long-term protection could revolutionise treatments for chronic diseases and cancer

Sciences & Technology

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Under the Microscope

From art restorer to DNA explorer

Torn between fine art and science, Associate Professor Elizabeth Hinde tried both, before finding her dream role in studying the nuclear architecture of living cells

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

Health & Medicine

Cannibal immune cells could offer new treatment path

Researchers discover that a type of immune cell can cannibalise the properties of other cells, creating the potential for harnessing them for new therapies and vaccines

Sciences & Technology

Live cell DNA architecture in real time

Seeing our invisible DNA architecture reveals that our genome is much more than a linear code, but rather an ever-changing blueprint

Health & Medicine

Deciphering ‘cell talk’ to understand our evolution

By understanding how cells communicate, we can get insights into how all forms of multicellular life first came to exist and the origins of some of the diseases that still affect us

Health & Medicine

Exposing the Achilles’ Heel of a major cancer gene

Recent genetic research has identified a surprising vulnerability of lymphoma cells that may lead to a new approach for cancer treatment

Health & Medicine

What malaria can tell us about ‘switching off’ diseases like HIV

New research exploring our body’s inflammation response to malaria could open up new avenues for treating chronic viral infections and autoimmune diseases like HIV

Health & Medicine

Stopping healthy cells from self-destructing

Australian scientists have developed a world-first compound that keeps cells alive and functioning when they otherwise would have died

Sciences & Technology

Engineering magnetics to grow human tissue

Tissue engineering can restore damaged or lost tissue in the human body, and biomedical engineers are working to one day scale up the technology to regenerate entire organs