Jose Villadangos and Antoine Roquilly found that macrophages (a type of white blood cell of the immune system) in the lungs also show similar immunosuppression after a severe infection or trauma.
As the new coronavirus Covid-19 spreads across the globe, the importance of vaccines and the scientists who develop them, has become increasingly apparent to society.
People with cancers in the kidney, gut and prostate will have improved hope for early diagnosis and treatment with new research aimed at increasing the shelf life of revolutionary radiation drugs.
Read Professor Sally Gras' Pursuit piece on how the process of forward osmosis is helping to make the process of making milk powder more energy efficient.
Bio21’s Professor Karen Day has been honoured with a Member (AM) in the general division in the Australia Day Awards for significant service to science education, and to global public health.
Prof Danny Hatters’ research published online in PNAS 22 January 2020 shows that cells seem to be much more resilient against stress factors in their environment than first thought and have robust mechanisms to prevent abnormal protein aggregation.
Dr Simon Cobbold, Dr Tuo Yang and Prof Leann Tilley, celebrating their discovery of the mechanism of artemisinin resistance, published in Cell Reports today.
An international team of scientists have reported an effective and environmentally sustainable way to block the transmission of mosquito-borne dengue virus, in trials carried out in Malaysia.
Bio21 group leaders, Paul Gooley and Danny Hatters, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Craig Hutton from the School of Chemistry were promoted to the position of full Professor at the University of Melbourne.