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Health & Medicine

New immune cells help maintain breast health

Researchers have discovered a new type of immune cell that helps keep breast tissue healthy within mammary ducts – the sites where milk is produced and transported – and where breast cancers arise

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Health & Medicine

Targeting ovarian cancer

A new discovery will help doctors deliver more targeted treatments for patients with this devastating cancer

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Health & Medicine

Putting cancer cells to sleep

Researchers have uncovered a whole new class of drug compounds with the potential to completely stop the proliferation of specific cancers like leukaemia and liver cancer, and maybe help keep other cancers in remission

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Health & Medicine

Exposing malaria’s atomic machinery

Scientists have used atomic level imaging to reveal for the first time exactly how an important malaria strain invades the blood, providing a design guide for a vaccine or drug

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Health & Medicine

Our cancer preventing genes revealed

In a world first, Melbourne scientists have discovered how the most important cancer-preventing gene, called p53, stops the development of lymphoma – and potentially other types of cancer

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Health & Medicine

The discovery shedding light on birth defects

Researchers have unpicked our decades-long understanding of how babies develop in utero, revealing more about how birth defects may occur

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Health & Medicine

An unexpected step in the fight against stomach cancer

A chance discovery by researchers has led to exciting new possibilities for beating gastric cancer - a disease where new treatments are desperately needed

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Sciences & Technology

The mind behind prize winning science

Professor Jacques Miller’s pioneering immunology research has been recognised with a prestigious Japan Prize, and some say it also deserves a Nobel Prize

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Health & Medicine

Caught! The cell behind a lung cancer

A stem cell that makes mistakes in repairing DNA has been uncovered as the likely culprit behind a major lung cancer