16 News & Press Releases found
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CSIRO and Clover to develop new, healthy ingredients for infant formulas
CSIRO and ingredients manufacturer, Clover Corporation Limited, are developing the next generation of nutritional ingredients for infant formulas. CSIRO and leading Australian ingredients manufacturer, Clover Corporation Limited, have agreed to ...
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Vaccine protects from deadly Hendra virus
Dr Deborah Middleton from CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) will announce the successful progress to develop the vaccine at the Australian Veterinary Association conference in Adelaide today. “Our trials so far have ...
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Alzheimer’s protein puts top brains to the test
Alzheimer’s disease is one of the fastest growing diseases in Australia and the most common form of dementia. The number of people with dementia is expected to rise from 300,000 to 1.13 million by 2050. Alzheimer’s disease is ...
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Research collaboration to deliver ‘healthier’ grains
The new ‘High Fibre Grains Cluster’ will focus on wheat, barley and rice. One of the primary research goals is to boost the amount of beneficial compounds, such as beta glucans and arabinoxylans, which are key contributors to the soluble ...
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Three new ways to access RAFT technology
RAFT technology has transformed polymer research and development and has already enabled the development of a number of new materials featuring much improved performance and functionality. Now CSIRO and DuPont have accelerated their technology ...
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An Australian first for lupin genome project
Being conducted in collaboration with the Centre for Food and Genomic Medicine (CFGM) in Perth, WA, the three-year, $1.5 million project will enable researchers and breeders to accelerate lupin crop improvements such as drought tolerance, disease ...
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Focussing on Australia`s second biggest killer
The cluster will conduct the START (Stroke, imaging, pRevention and Treatment) cohort study of stroke which is designed to integrate imaging and biomarker analysis to identify patients at risk of stroke. Those strategies will then be used to ...
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What foods give kids a healthy start to life?
"Nutritional genomics is an emerging area of science that is making a significant difference in our approach to enhancing health outcomes by improving our understanding of how to prevent harmful genetic changes that cause developmental defects and ...
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Dieters wanted for website trial
The CSIRO Preventative Health Flagship is calling for volunteers to try out a pilot ‘online social network’ in which they get access to free diet and health information, recipes and chat sessions. CSIRO is asking participants to sign up ...
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Putting Alzheimer’s on early notice
The International Conference on Alzheimer"s disease in Hawaii heard that scientists from the Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle Flagship Study of Ageing (AIBL) have identified advances in imaging and blood screening that will contribute to ...
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CSIRO grants global license for new polymer technology
Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer (or RAFT) technology is an elegant and powerful polymerisation process that has given rise to a new branch of polymer chemistry. RAFT enables the development of very complex molecules that can be ...
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Of lice and man: researchers sequence human body louse genome
A multi-institutional team has recently sequenced the body louse genome, an achievement that will yield new insights into louse – and human – biology and evolution. The body louse genome is the smallest known genome of any insect, said ...
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Relieving the electronic health records headache
Inaccurate or missing data in patient records has resulted in people being hospitalised unnecessarily and wastage of an estimated 25 per cent of clinicians" time spent collecting patient data. As part of the Federal Government"s e-health ...
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CSIRO at Australia’s biggest ICT trade show – CeBIT
CeBIT, the nation’s leading trade show for ICT industries and research organisations, is on in Sydney from 24-26 May. The CSIRO stand, staffed by experts in science, engineering and commercialisation, will feature displays of the following ...
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Fulbright scholarship awarded to e-health expert
The award will enable Dr Yogesan Kanagasingam, Research Director for the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), to spend four months at Stanford University School of Medicine developing and validating a new ‘non-invasive’ system to screen ...
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Appointment boosts CSIRO bioinformatics research
“Bioinformatics, the interface between computing and biology, is a fast growing field and Dr Jermiin’s appointment is part of CSIRO’s move to build its skills base in genome bioinformatics,” CSIRO Entomology’s Chief, Dr Mark Lonsdale said. ...