Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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