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A team of Australian scientists has identified new genes that show identifiable changes in the blood of people with bowel cancer. The discovery has the potential to underpin a new cost-effective blood test that would signal the early stages of bowel cancer.

Seaweed extracts are being used to develop next-generation biopolymer coating materials to replace fossil-based plastic coatings used in grease-resistant fast-food packaging.

Flinders University materials researchers and pioneering German biomaterials developer one • five are using seaweed extracts to develop next-generation biopolymer coating materials that could solve packaging waste dilemmas for the fast-food industry.

Flinders University materials researchers and pioneering German biomaterials developer one • five are using seaweed extracts to develop next-generation biopolymer coating materials that could solve packaging waste dilemmas for the fast-food industry.

Flinders University studies to determine if people with lymphoedema experience symptom variations due to varying climatic conditions aim to provide better treatment outcomes for patients trying to cope with longstanding swelling in their limbs.

Imagine making some liquids mix that do not mix, then unmixing them.

Flinders University researchers are using their vortex fluidic device to mix immiscible liquids, an advance that could improve industrial processes. 

Obese or overweight people may in some cases have improved chances of survival from certain cancers, claims a study which contradicts the regular warnings about the health risks posed by higher body mass index (BMI).

Antiandrogen withdrawal (AAW) response, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) following the withdrawal of antiandrogen, advanced prostate cancer, PSA response to AAW, second-generation antiandrogens.

Chemotherapy destabilizes gut microbiome in cancer patients New research in BMC Cancer has shown myelosuppressive chemotherapy destabilizes gut microbiome in patients with solid organ cancers. The study from SAHMRI and Flinders University assessed the gut health of men and women who underwent conventional chemotherapy on cancers, such as breast and lung cancer, without exposure to antibiotics. "We know that myelosuppressive chemotherapy reduces white blood cell count significantly during the f...