Professor Guillaume Lessene has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS) for ...

Keeping mitochondria healthy depends on tight quality control, and ubiquitination has emerged as a central mechanism governing mitochondrial dynamics, protein import into mitochondria, mitophagy, and ...

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Heraud-Farlow JE, Taylor SR, Chalk AM, Escudero A, Hu S-B, Goradia A, Sun T, Li Q, Nikolic I, Li JB, Fidalgo M, Guallar D, Simpson KJ, Walkley CR. GGNBP2 regulates MDA5 sensing triggered by self ...

Around 12% of the world’s total cancer cases in 2024 were likely caused by an infection, according to new research from the World Health Organization (WHO). The study, published in The Lancet Oncology ...

Professor Aaron Jex is a Laboratory Head and Co-Lead in the Immunity division at WEHI, where he leads an infectious diseases research laboratory and Head of Technology Governance and Strategy. He is ...

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From landmark discoveries on the origins of breast cancer to translating lab findings into prevention trials for women at highest risk, Professor Jane Visvader’s pioneering research has improved our ...

Helen Wilkinson’s life was upended when her son, Pete Young, was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) at age 23. Here Helen shares her memories of Pete and how his legacy lives onthrough ...

BRCA2 is frequently mutated in breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancers. It is an essential component of the homologous recombination (HR) pathway, which repairs DNA double-strand breaks and ...