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Not content with drawing attention to the condition and improving its treatment, the people behind Hudson Institute’s Primary Aldosteronism Centre of Excellence (PACE) have now identified a faster, gentler way of identifying its cause.…  Read more

As Australia approaches another flu season, the nation’s peak medical research funding body has recognised a Hudson Institute researcher for her pioneering work on influenza.…  Read more

In a comprehensive review published in Nature Reviews Immunology, one of the most respected scientific journals, our team synthesised emerging insights into how cytokines are regulated through their structural assembly. Cytokines are small signalling proteins released by immune cells that act as messengers, allowing cells to communicate. They coordinate immune responses, tissue repair and many other…  Read more

A new flu treatment could drastically reduce one of flu’s deadliest complications – bacterial pneumonia – by helping the lungs defend themselves, rather than targeting the virus directly.…  Read more

Neonatologist and clinician-scientist Associate Professor Atul Malhotra from The Ritchie Centre, the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health,  and Monash Children’s Hospital,  has been awarded a Fulbright Professional Coral Sea Scholarship to support the US implementation of an umbilical cord blood (UCB) cell therapies clinical trial for extremely preterm babies. …  Read more

As understanding of the gut microbiome continues to grow, attention is turning to its potential impact on brain development, with major research investment being devoted to better assess the role of the maternal and developing infant gut microbiomes in healthy infant neurodevelopment.…  Read more

A young woman with a rare perspective on pediatric cancer is now considering where science can take her after completing a successful internship at Hudson Institute.…  Read more

RNA-based medicine is about to take a huge leap forward thanks to the discovery of extremely short RNA fragments with important anti-inflammatory properties.…  Read more

Fewer stillbirths and reduced perinatal mortality: they are the key findings of the first analysis of the Safer Baby Bundle, Australia’s national stillbirth prevention program.…  Read more

A baby’s first breaths involve more than just getting air into the lungs, and for the first time research has identified the important role of the chest wall in this process.…  Read more