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
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