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La Trobe University research has revealed a tobacco plant’s natural defence mechanisms could be harnessed to kill cancer cells in the human body. Scientists at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science have identified that a molecule in the flower of the plant that fights fungi and bacteria also has the ability to identify […]
March 18, 2014
La Trobe University research has shed new light on how dead and dying cells are removed from the human body. The research could also lead to new ways to boost the body’s defence mechanisms and better treat a range of inflammatory diseases such as heart disease. Cell biologist Dr Ivan Poon has been studying a […]
February 21, 2014
Key role for La Trobe in new Government Research Centres of Excellence The Federal Government has awarded $8m to three La Trobe University scientists for leading-edge research into next-generation immunological and plant-based therapies for cancer and other diseases. Research groups led by physicists Dr Brian Abbey and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Keith Nugent, and by […]
August 29, 2013
La Trobe University has been selected to take part in a new $17 million science program launched by the peak United States’ medical science funding body, the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The program comprises a consortium of more than 30 universities involved in 24 research projects and will probe the next frontier in the […]
May 23, 2013
La Trobe University geneticist Dr Warwick Grant is one of only two Australians among 58 scientists world-wide recently awarded a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation With more than 120 million people at risk from a chronic debilitating parasitic disease called river blindness, his ground-breaking global health research focuses […]
April 9, 2014
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