The participants who chose more organically grown foods over 4.5 years had slightly lower rates of cancer. But it doesn't necessarily mean one thing caused the other.
Research of microbiota in health and disease has received a federal funding boost, with an additional $4 million committed towards the Microbiome Research Centre.
Janne McMahon, an extraordinary mental health consumer advocate, and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at UNSW, have been awarded this year's Australian Mental Health Prize.
A global-first, UNSW-led trial of an HIV prevention medication has resulted in an almost one-third decline in infections in the large-scale target group.
Once genetic lesions for diseases such as cystic fibrosis and haemophilia were identified, the idea of replacing or correcting defective genes grew into what we now call "gene therapy".
