Australia's hyper competitive grant system, and the chronic job insecurity it creates, is harming the very researchers who are working to improve the nation's health. The people striving to find cures...

For those outside of Australia this is an anti-gambling advert. I am posting this because funding for science in Australia is at a crisis and for many in the research sector we are gambling with our f...

“Decay continues” as Australian Research Council’s Decra scheme announces 13.1 per cent success rate

One day in April, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research director Douglas Hilton called his communications manager, Penny Fannin, into his office. “He said he’d heard significant cuts wer...

Computational drug discovery is used to identify a 12-mer peptide derived from BRINP2 with potent anti-obesity effects that are independent of leptin, glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor and melanocortin...

Programmable Enrichment via RNA FlowFISH by sequencing (PERFF-seq) isolates rare cells based on RNA marker transcripts for single-cell RNA sequencing profiling of complex tissues, with applicability t...

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Cancer-derived paracrine factors create distinct “neighborhoods” in the tumor microenvironment, promoting clonal selection and tumor heterogeneity. In ovarian cancer, IL-4 originating from a minority of cells within the tumor can promote immune suppression and tumor resistance to immune checkpoint blockade therapy.