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Going bald to battle sarcoma
By Alicia Bienkowski | Cancer, Cancer, Community, Fundraising, News & Events, SarcomaPerkins alumnus, Matthew Eton, is facing an important fight. In May this year, Matthew was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma – a subtype of the rare bone and connective tissue cancer…
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Genetic screening study begins national roll-out
By Alicia Bienkowski | Funding, Genetic Disease, Genetic Disease, Genetic Neuromuscular Disorders, Genetics, Media Releases, News & Events, Rare Disease Genetics and Functional Genomics, Research, StatementsFull-scale recruitment for a $20 million reproductive genetic carrier screening study has begun in four states and territories ahead of national expansion next year. The pilot phase of the Mackenzie’s…
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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…
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Game-changing study shows ‘hands off’ approach’ best to treat a collapsed lung
By Alicia Bienkowski | Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Lungs, Media Releases, News & Events, Research, StatementsIt’s the basic rule of medicine all doctors follow – ‘first do no harm’. New research from a collaboration between Australian and New Zealand researchers backs that premise, showing that…
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One in twenty five couples found to be at high risk of having a baby with a recessive genetic condition
By Alicia Bienkowski | DNA, Genes, Genetic Disease, Genetic Disease, Genetic Neuromuscular Disorders, Genetics, Lab, Media Releases, Molecular Medicine, Motor Neurone Disease, Muscular Dystrophy, News & Events, Rare Disease Genetics and Functional Genomics, ResearchWA’s first pre-pregnancy study finishing screening for more than 200 couples The first major pre-pregnancy screening study in WA found around 4% of couples were at risk of having a…
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New drug limits cancer spreading
By Alicia Bienkowski | Blood Vessels, Cancer, Lab, News & Events, Research, Tumour Blood Vessels, Tumours, Vascular Biology and Stromal TargetingMost patients die from metastatic cancers, not the primary tumour A research team that recently invented a drug to stop blood vessels from forming a treatment resistant barrier around some…
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Smartphones the next frontier in skin cancer detection
By Alicia Bienkowski | Cancer, Cancer, Lab, Media Releases, Melanoma, Melonoma, News & Events, Research, UncategorisedArtificial intelligence could soon be used to diagnose melanoma more cheaply and accurately based on an artificial intelligence algorithm developed by WA researchers. Findings published in the journal of the…
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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…
