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- Inside one in ten women an invasive disease is ravaging reproductive and surrounding organs. It causes serious pain and in some cases, infertility. It’s called endometriosis and we know very little about it.
- For the first time, scientists have seen in exquisite, real-time detail how immune cells survey their surroundings to detect threats to our health.
- Two IMB researchers are among a group of 100 female scientists from around the world taking part in a year-long leadership scheme culminating in an Antarctic voyage.
- Researchers from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience have revealed the genetic causes of neurological degeneration, which could be a key to slowing the progression of devastating diseases including cerebellar ataxias and neurodegenerative conditions.
- A peptide from the venom of the spider Heteroscoda maculata can restore the neural deficiencies that trigger seizures associated with Dravet syndrome, a devastating form of childhood epilepsy.
- A short-statured population of Indonesians living on the island of Flores arose independently of the extinct species Homo floresiensis – the so-called ‘hobbits’ – an international team of scientists has found.
- Geneticists Professor Peter Visscher and Professor Jian Yang have had their work recognised by prestigious funding from the ARC.
- The largest genetic study of type 2 diabetes has identified 42 new genetic variants in a discovery that could provide new opportunities to prevent and treat this disease.
- Research into a toxin from the desert bush spider could lead to new treatments for conditions such as pain, cardiac arrhythmia and epilepsy, and could also advance the development of ecofriendly insecticides.
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People have known for thousands of years that parents pass traits to their children, but it is only relatively recently that our technology has caught up to our curiosity, enabling us to delve into the mystery of how this inheritance occurs, and the implications for predicting, preventing and treating disease.
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