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01 August 2024
Over $8 million in research funding to Sydney ARC Future Fellows
Eight University of Sydney researchers have been awarded Australian Research Council funding in recognition of their projects tacking key research challenges.
31 July 2024
Sydney plays crucial role in monitoring global genetic diversity
Nine countries took part in the study, led locally by Associate Professor Catherine Grueber. In Australia, genetic data is helping inform management of the numbat and other threatened species.
31 July 2024
Eureka Prize 2024 finalists announced
The awards honour researchers leading in their fields to tackle some of the world's most complex problems.
24 July 2024
NSW biodiversity reforms signal progress, but gaps still exist
Professor Carolyn Hogg from the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, Jaana Dielenberg from Charles Darwin University and Professor Hugh Possingham from the University of Queensland discuss the NSW Government's proposed major overhaul of the Biodiversity Conservation Act.
19 July 2024
ABC TOP 5 media residencies for 2024 announced
Dr Laura Case, an Indigenous musicologist at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and Dr Laura Driessen, a radio astronomer in the Faculty of Science, have each won a two-week media residency with the ABC.
19 July 2024
New antidote for cobra bites discovered using CRISPR technology
Snakes kill more than 100,000 people a year. Cobra antivenom is expensive and doesn't treat the necrosis of flesh caused by the bite. Working with colleagues in the UK, Professor Greg Neely's team has identified heparin as an antidote to cobra venom.
01 July 2024
Australia's 'Easter bunny', the bilby, has had its genome fully sequenced
Under pressure from predatory foxes and cats and competing with feral rabbits, the Greater bilby has lost more than 80 percent of its habitat. Conservation work led by Professor Carolyn Hogg is designed to help save the bilby from extinction.
27 June 2024
Psylo partnership to deliver psychedelic treatments for mental health
University research expertise combined with Psylo's artificial intelligence platform promises life-changing therapeutics.
26 June 2024
Promising pathway discovered to treat rare childhood brain disease
Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome is a rare disease that can trigger dementia in children. Associate Professor Markus Hofer and colleagues in the UK are focusing on treatments in the blood vessels in the brain to combat AGS.
25 June 2024
Beyond CRISPR: seekRNA delivers a new pathway for accurate gene editing
Patented method developed in the laboratory of Dr Sandro Ataide promises to accelerate the potential of genetic engineering already shown by CRISPR gene-editing technology.
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