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Antibiotics resistance solution to be commercialised

By | Bacteria, Cardiovascular Science and Diabetes Program, Emergency Medicine, Kidney Disease, Media Releases, News & Events, Synthetic Biology and Drug Discovery, Targeted Drug Delivery, Translation

Breakthrough diagnostic technology to be commercialised in Australia in race to save millions globally from antibiotic resistant sepsis. CUREator funds Western Australian research team to develop life-saving technology through the…

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Perkins Researchers Rebooting Evolution

By | Cancer, Cancer, Cancer and Cell Biology, Media Releases, Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology, Molecular Medicine, News & Events, Research, Synthetic Biology and Drug Discovery, Synthetic Biology Gene Therapy

The building blocks of life-saving therapeutics could be developed in days instead of years thanks to new software that simulates evolution. Proseeker is the name of a new computational tool…

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Bioinformatics and high-performance computing evolution lead to better treatments for major diseases

By | Cancer, Cancer, Cancer and Cell Biology, News & Events, Research, Synthetic Biology and Drug Discovery

It’s time to talk about bioinformatics and its influence on high-performance computing (HPC) as well as the importance of data analysis and interpretation in medical research. As part of Data…

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Young WA researcher delivers breast cancer hope

By | Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Centre News, Inspiration, News & Events, Synthetic Biology and Drug Discovery

Originally published in The West Australian: 17 November 2020 Ciara Duffy falls to silence when she considers the possibilities that lie ahead. Her research that honeybee venom can kill aggressive…

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Study finds gene regulation linked to energy production

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Researchers 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…

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Molecular machines stop cancer’s clock

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Head of the laboratory for Synthetic Biology and Drug Discovery, Professor Oliver Rackham, says cancer cells grow uncontrollably whereas normal cells limit their growth. “A normal cell grows for just the…

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Perkins researchers find essential gene for healthy hearts

By | Disease Area, Heart, Lab, Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology, Molecular Medicine, News & Events, Research, Research Area, Synthetic Biology and Drug Discovery

Professor Aleksandra Filipovska and her team from the Perkins Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology Laboratory in collaboration with Professor Oliver Rackham and Professor Nils Göran Larsson and his team from the Max Planck Institute for Biology…