Parkinson’s disease is a complex neurological condition that is incurable and its cause is not understood. An estimated 80, 000 Australians live with Parkinson’s disease and with our ageing population…
The good oil on krill
New research investigating the oils or ‘lipids’ in Antarctic krill will provide scientists and the krill fishing industry with improved tools for measuring the health of krill populations and their…
How the worlds thinnest material will change our lives
There’s been growing interest in a material called graphene that could revolutionize the way a whole range of technologies look and work, from phones to tvs, body armour to testing…
Researchers create new combination vaccine to fight Streptococcus A
Griffith’s Institute for Glycomics has developed a groundbreaking, combination vaccine that may finally beat Streptococcus A infections. Infections caused by Streptococcus pyogenes are responsible for the deaths of almost 500,000 people…
No more science fiction: 3D holographic images
Drug research enhanced by fragment screening libraries
Development of fragment screening libraries could enhance the analysis and application of natural products for medicinal chemistry and drug discovery, according to Professor Ronald Quinn, Director of Griffith’s Eskitis Institute for…
New forensic technology helping lay rest to our ANZAC past
As we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove, DNA experts are working to identify Australian soldiers who died during another World War 1 conflict. The 1916…
Did farming cause a bottleneck of male diversity?
When people abandoned a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and became agriculturalists, initially some 10,000 years ago, they gave up a lot of things. This significant shift in the way they obtained their…
Proving Einstein Wrong with ‘Spooky’ Quantum Experiment
An experiment devised in Griffith University’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics has for the first time demonstrated Albert Einstein’s original conception of “spooky action at a distance” using a single particle….
Info-graphic: The BIG NUMBERS of climate change
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