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 […]
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 […]
April 9, 2014
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