Media release: Novel drug in development to inhibit acute inflammation

Teams led by Bio21's Prof Michael Parker and Prof Karlheinz Peter, Baker in the new Department of Cardiometabolic Health are developing a new anti-inflammatory drug.

Media Release: Solar panel efficiency could mean consumer savings of 20 percent

Congratulations to Bio21's David Jones, whose research to improve the efficiency of solar cells has been supported by a $1.29 million grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

Media Release: Insect Armageddon: low doses of the insecticide, Imidacloprid, cause blindness in insects

Bio21's Professor Phil Batterham and Dr Felipe Martelli's PNAS study shows the insecticide Imidacloprid is harmful to insects even at very low doses.

Media Release: New tool outsmarts COVID-19 virus to help vaccine development

University of Melbourne Associate Professor David Ascher and his team at the Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute developed the software tool and library, dubbed COVID-3D.

Dr Elizabeth Hinde receives ARC Future Fellowship

Liz is funded to show how factors that repair DNA enter the nuclei of living cells using fluorescence microscopy techniques.

Multi-million dollar grant for new ARC Training Centre announced today

Bio21 will play a major role in housing many of the CryoEM microscopes included in the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre.

Q&A: How could COVID-19 drugs work and what’s out there?

Here we ask Bio21's Associate Professor Stuart Ralph and Dr Craig Morton from University of Melbourne’s School of Biomedical Sciences to explain how anti-viral drugs work and go through the different drug candidates that may help treat COVID-19.

Have resistance, will travel

Bio21's Nancy Endersby, Qiong Yang, Tom Schmidt and Ary Hoffmann have investigated patterns of movement of the two resistance profiles for dengue spreading mozzies and the red-legged earth mite.

Three ways to break a sugar chain

Mushrooms are some of nature's mightiest recyclers, breaking down glycosidic bonds that hold carbohydrate chains together.

Bio21 researchers funded to investigate molecular mechanisms in health and disease

Congratulations to Michael Parker, Eric Reynolds and Debnath Ghosal, who received NHMRC Investigator grant funding.

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