WA expertise produces 10,000 face shields to support frontline health workers
By Alicia Bienkowski | Bioimaging Research and Innovation for Translational Engingeering BRITE, Media Releases, News & EventsHarry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, The University of Western Australia, WA Department of Health and Adarsh Australia have teamed up to manufacture up to 10,000 face-shields initially to support…
New way to detect breast cancer more accurately
By Alicia Bienkowski | Bioimaging Research and Innovation for Translational Engingeering BRITE, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cancer, Media Releases, Research, StatementsA team of researchers from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and The University of Western Australia have developed a new way to more accurately detect breast cancer in…
Treating disease from a new angle
By Alicia Bienkowski | Bioimaging Research and Innovation for Translational Engingeering BRITE, Lab, Media Releases, News & Events, ResearchMany different diseases have been linked to stiffness in our cells, but researchers have needed more advanced tools to examine stiffness at a microscopic level. Now, biomedical engineers at the…
Study finds gene regulation linked to energy production
By Alicia Bienkowski | Lab, Mitochondria, Mitochondrial Disease, Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology, News & Events, Research, Synthetic Biology and Drug DiscoveryResearchers at Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, The University of Western Australia and Curtin University have made a fundamental discovery about the regulation of genes in mitochondria, providing new…
Activating the silent assassin within to fight breast cancer
By Alicia Bienkowski | Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Epigenetics, Funding, Media Releases, News & EventsPerth researcher wins $1.4m grant to wake up an immune system corrupted by cancer FAST FACTS: Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women globally 14 million women…
Microbial cell factories hold key to solving problems from antibiotic resistance to industrial pollution
By Alicia Bienkowski | Media Releases, News & Events, Synthetic Biology and Drug DiscoveryWA to benefit from $35m investment in synthetic biology. Creating artificial genes and proteins that program cells in ways only limited by the imagination was previously the domain of science…
Researchers uncover new sarcoma gene
By Alicia Bienkowski | Cancer, Cell Signalling, Genes, News & Events, SarcomaA team of WA researchers has uncovered new genes that could play an important role in the development of sarcoma, a group of rare bone, muscle and connective tissue cancers.…
Brain & Breast Cancer Collaborative Grant Recipient Announced
By Alicia Bienkowski | Brain, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Epigenetics, Genes, News & Events, ResearchProject led by Associate Professor Pilar Blancafort will be co-funded by an $890,000 investment from Cure Brain Cancer Foundation and National Breast Cancer Foundation. Top researchers from the fields of…