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Media Release: Insect Armageddon: low doses of the insecticide, Imidacloprid, cause blindness in insectsBio21's Professor Phil Batterham and Dr Felipe Martelli's PNAS study shows the insecticide Imidacloprid is harmful to insects even at very low doses.
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Media Release: New tool outsmarts COVID-19 virus to help vaccine developmentUniversity of Melbourne Associate Professor David Ascher and his team at the Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute developed the software tool and library, dubbed COVID-3D.
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Dr Elizabeth Hinde receives ARC Future FellowshipLiz is funded to show how factors that repair DNA enter the nuclei of living cells using fluorescence microscopy techniques.
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Multi-million dollar grant for new ARC Training Centre announced todayBio21 will play a major role in housing many of the CryoEM microscopes included in the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre.
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Q&A: How could COVID-19 drugs work and what’s out there?Here we ask Bio21's Associate Professor Stuart Ralph and Dr Craig Morton from University of Melbourne’s School of Biomedical Sciences to explain how anti-viral drugs work and go through the different drug candidates that may help treat COVID-19.
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Have resistance, will travelBio21's Nancy Endersby, Qiong Yang, Tom Schmidt and Ary Hoffmann have investigated patterns of movement of the two resistance profiles for dengue spreading mozzies and the red-legged earth mite.
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Three ways to break a sugar chainMushrooms are some of nature's mightiest recyclers, breaking down glycosidic bonds that hold carbohydrate chains together.
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Bio21 researchers funded to investigate molecular mechanisms in health and diseaseCongratulations to Michael Parker, Eric Reynolds and Debnath Ghosal, who received NHMRC Investigator grant funding.
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Understanding the response of our immune system’s powerful armyJose Villadangos and Antoine Roquilly found that macrophages (a type of white blood cell of the immune system) in the lungs also show similar immunosuppression after a severe infection or trauma.
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Announcing the Ruth Bishop Building and Ian Holmes Imaging CentreAs the new coronavirus Covid-19 spreads across the globe, the importance of vaccines and the scientists who develop them, has become increasingly apparent to society.
