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Four researchers from the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University have been awarded Cancer Seed Grants to help improve outcomes for patients living with cancers including ovarian cancer, multiple myeloma and the asbestos-related

Survival rates for gastrointestinal (GI) cancer among Northern Territorians have improved in the past 30 years but Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in the Territory still have worse survival outcomes, a new analysis has found.

Image: Pixabay A blood test to help guide the treatment of oesophageal, stomach and bowel cancers will be evaluated in a new Flinders University trial set to get underway. The trial is thanks to a federal government grant of almost $2 million announced yesterday, with Flinders University awarded funding for three projects, totalling $5.8 million. The research builds on a successful collaboration between Flinders University, CSIRO and biotechnology company Clinical Genomics that developed a bloo...

Date Time Positive signs of immunity after COVID-19 infection Australian scientists have described the evolution of immunity levels up to four months following COVID-19 infection, finding that while antibody levels drop dramatically in the first one to two months, the decrease then slows down substantially. The findings suggest that protective COVID-19 vaccines should ideally generate stronger antibody responses than natural infection. The research, led by Professor Stephen Kent from the Dohert...

Photo: Pixabay Scientists have for the first time established a sensory neuron model able to mass-reproduce two key sensory neuron types involved in pain sensation, enabling the easy generation of large numbers of the cells to fast-track chronic pain research. In research applications usually sensory neurons need to be isolated from animals. They represent a wide variety of different cell types, making it difficult to collect and isolate large quantities of pain sensing neurons. Using a new tec...