As Zika fear rises, especially in the wake of the World Health Organization last night declaring a state of public health emergency, people are inevitably asking why we don’t have…
Volunteers needed for malaria vaccine studies
Trying to think of a New Year’s resolution? Why not join the bid to cure malaria? The Institute for Glycomics is calling for volunteers to be part of their malaria vaccine…
World-first 3D image of a protein involved in cancer spread
The Institute for Glycomics has made scientific history by determining the first three-dimensional image of a protein linked to the spread of cancer. The world-first image was revealed in the prestigious journal…
How understanding sugar can help treat disease
Dr Preston Ng is a research fellow with the Institute for Glycomics at Griffith University’s Gold Coast Campus. Transcript “When someone mentions sugars, the additive found in sweet desserts immediately…
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…
X-ray crystallography photo essay
2014 is the International Year of Crystallography; a celebration of X-ray crystallography and the science driven by this technology. 2014 also marks 10 years since Griffith University solved its first structure…