The Minister for Vocational and Further Education, the Hon Andrew Robb AO MP, today announced a $2.6 million funding boost for a new training facility for nurses in South Australia.
Human bone marrow has been used to create early-stage sperm cells for the first time, a scientific step forward that will help researchers understand more about how sperm cells are created.
In a study that could help reveal how illusions are produced in the brain?s visual cortex, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have found new evidence of rapid integration of auditory and visual sensations in the brain.
Hepatitis C infection is endemic among the South Australian prison population, with 42% of the State’s 1700 prisoners infected with the virus, according to a University of Adelaide study.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population has announced the death on 10 April of the 15-year-old female from Cairo Governorate.
Researchers supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health, have engineered a portable, phone-sized test that in minutes measures proteins in saliva that may indicate a developing disease in the mouth or possibly elsewhere in the body.
Neuroscientists at UCLA have shown that lithium, long the standard treatment for bipolar disorder, increases the amount of gray matter in the brains of patients with the illness.
Up to 15 percent of couples of childbearing age struggle with the heartache of infertility. Now there is the promise of new hope with Cornell researchers’ identification of a mutation in a gene that causes male infertility in mice.
A clearer, faster way to pick out potentially cancerous cells in cervical smear tests could benefit women who live in the developing world.
Scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine are the first to report that the stress hormone epinephrine causes changes in prostate and breast cancer cells that may make them resistant to cell death.