Research Highlights

Media by Monash University              
A cure for congenital sight  impairment caused by lens damage is closer following research by scientists at  Monash University. Associate Professor Tiziano Barberi and Dr Isabella  Mengarelli from the Australian  Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) at Monash University are  closer to growing parts of the human eye in the lab. The study published in Stem Cells Translational Medicine was partly funded by the Australian Research  Council.

Media issued by the Queensland Institute of Medical Research            
Associate Professor David Harrich, from QIMR’s Molecular Virology Laboratory, has determined how to modify a protein in the HIV virus, so that it instead  provides strong, lasting protection from infection. Associate Professor  Harrich has been researching HIV for thirty years, since starting as a research  assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the early 1980s. An Australian Research Council Future Fellowship funds Professor Harrich’s research.

Media by the University of Queensland
Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) say Australia’s planners and coastal communities need to think up to 100 years ahead to ensure the survival of mangroves, salt marshes, sedge lands and melaleuca swamps and their wildlife.

Media issued by ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science       
The  Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a horrifying consequence of our never-ending  consumption. Now, new research shows that even if we could eliminate plastic waste and prevent all litter from making its way to the ocean, these Patches would continue to mar the planet for hundreds of years.