Plastic debris have been identified as pollutants in the oceans due to their long lifetime and low degradability, killing more than 1 million seabirds and 10, 000 mammals every year.
At the AIBN, our researchers are pushing the boundaries of personalised medicine: developing new, patient-specific treatments to address serious diseases. But we’ve also got people whose mission is to prevent sickness in the first place.
In the hunt for new and more sophisticated cancer-fighting tools, theranostics are a promising double-act: an emerging group of materials capable of identifying and healing tumours.
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The development of a new, non-flammable electrolyte material could mean a safer and cheaper alternative to lithium-ion batteries and – thanks to the work of University of Queensland researchers – another step towards a cleaner energy future.
Tiny nano-particles less than a thousandth of a millimetre in size are providing a promising new method to protect sheep against deadly flystrike, according to University of Queensland research.
