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UK researchers at the UCL Institute of Neurology have identified a possible new treatment for Parkinson’s. The research, published in The Lancet, shows that from a small safety trial of 62 people with Parkinson’s, the 32 participants injected with exenatide (a ...

The annual Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey bears bad news for graduates. Released this week, it shows that while the more educated generally fare better across several social and economic outcomes, such outcomes aren’t as good as ...

For the first time, a team of international scientists have successfully used a specific technology to edit human DNA, to prevent disease. Their study, published in Nature, showed that, through the use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, a gene mutation causing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) could ...

It’s 2017, and institutions are rightly taking sexual assault and harassment seriously. All of the 39 member-universities of Universities Australia responded swiftly and comprehensively to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s report on sexual harassment and sexual assault on campus, released ...

An Australian team competing in the Amazon Robotics challenge in Japan has won first prize. The team from the Australian Centre for Robotics Vision (ACRV), led by Dr Juxi Leitner, came from behind to win the final round of the ...

A woman who was kissed on the cheek by a teacher on the bus on the way to uni. A woman from a residential college who went out partying and was encouraged to drink by a male friend and fellow ...

Nothing currently drives the international news and the US policy agenda more than Donald Trump's prolific, often controversial tweets. So, it makes sense that a team of international researchers, led by QUT, would examine them to determine his personality. By analysing his ...

In the 1990s, Peter Noonan says, our VET sector was the envy of the rest of the Asia-Pacific. Now, the professor of tertiary education policy at Victoria University's Mitchell Institute thinks it might be the other way round. At a recent Hong Kong-based ...

Everyone has probably heard something akin to the following from a taxi/Uber driver: ‘I worked as an engineer in India and now, here in Australia, the only job I can get is as a driver.’ A newly-released ACER research briefing ...

Since ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 it’s had various medical and recreational uses. Normally used as an anaesthetic, it has particular value in veterinary science due to its ability to sedate animals without suppressing respiration nor cardiovascular functions. Now researchers at the ...