NSW has lifted its ban on genetically modified crops: what difference will it make to food and farmers? theguardian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theguardian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Date Time
Success for Adelaide-led medical research
The University of Adelaide has been awarded more than $8.8 million in research grants from the Federal Government’s Medical Research Future Fund’s (MRFF) to support targeted research on new ways to address risk factors for chronic and complex diseases.
The funding includes research with a focus on leukaemia, stroke, Aboriginal maternal health, endometriosis, stem cell treatments, and a childhood bone-growth disorder.
A team led by Associate Professor Renee Turner and collaborators will use their $2,582,876 grant to work on the SPRINTS Project: Stroke – prevention of Reperfusion Injury and Neuroinflammation. The therapeutic strategy represents a novel approach to significantly improve patient outcomes following an ischaemic stroke.
The Sydney Morning Herald on Thursday, University of Melbourne epidemiologist Professor Tony Blakely argued Australia’s major risk is now “the virus getting back in, through leakage from quarantine and international arrivals”.
Vaccinating border staff would directly target that risk, he wrote. One major hurdle to this approach is that it s not yet clear if first-generation COVID-19 vaccines will stop a person being able to catch and transmit the virus.
Tests in animals suggest the vaccines may protect against severe illness but still allow the virus to replicate in the nose and spread from person to person.
Human clinical trials of Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines – the only ones approved so far – have not yet answered that question.