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What does space travel do to our cells?
UNSW Sydney scientists are exploring the effects of microgravity – the condition where people or objects seem to be weightless – on mammalian cells.
UNSW medical researcher Associate Professor Kate Poole and her team are set to investigate how our cells sense changes in gravity as we travel out of the Earth’s atmosphere, thanks to a two-year research grant from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Space travel can be tough on the body. During and after space missions, astronauts experience health problems ranging from loss of bone and muscle mass to weakened immune function and vision problems. While there are some studies on the physiological effects of microgravity on the body, the underlying cellular mechanisms of these changes – and how cells in the body actually sense diminished gravitational forces – remain elusive.
Literary connections between Australia and Japan In the library I found a comprehensive supply of books in English specificaly relating to my project, including translations into English of Japanese fiction, and I aslo found interconnected material giving me good background knowledge. I was quite impressed by some of the latest collections of sociological materials, for example, seven volumes of short stories published in occupied Japan (1945-1952) by Fujiwara Shoten. I came across them while browsing in the stack.
Dr David Chapman, Program Director, International Studies and Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia
Koseki: the ‘State’ of creating and controlling Japanese citizens
The unvaccinated student nurse worked at Fairfield Hospital and Royal North Shore Hospital while infectious from June 24 to June 28.
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said on Thursday that one of the nurse’s close friends who worked at “similar places to her” had also tested positive.
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“Extensive contact tracing has occurred around that nurse and we have identified one healthcare worker who was present at the ward on the Sunday when she was close to completing her shift,” Dr Chant said.
Another one of the nurse’s contacts who has tested positive worked at aged care facility SummitCare, in Baulkham Hills, and it is believed the aged care worker was unvaccinated.
Lucy Carroll14:40, Jul 01 2021
The Australian state of New South Wales has recorded 24 new cases of local coronavirus cases in the 24 hours to 8pm (local time) on Wednesday. Only about half of them were in isolation for their entire infectious period, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced.
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People queue at the Covid-19 testing area at the Douglas Building at Sydney s Royal North Shore Hospital. It came as another healthcare worker at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital has tested positive for Covid-19 and as more than 100 patients and staff at two Sydney hospitals are in isolation after a separate, unvaccinated student nurse who worked across multiple wards tested positive to Covid-19 on Wednesday.
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