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For the first time Hudson Institute researchers have shown how fetal growth restriction (FGR), a condition which may impact brain development for up to one in 10 babies, gradually worsens during pregnancy. …  Read more

Professor Caroline Gargett and collaborators at the University of Queensland and Monash IVF have been awarded a three-year US$2.07 million (AU$3.05 million) grant to determine the cause of endometriosis and the physiological processes associated with the disease.…  Read more

Hudson Institute is delighted to announce the success of our researchers in the new NHMRC Investigator Grant round.…  Read more

Researchers have made an evolution related breakthrough in discovering the critical change in hormonal salt regulation that allowed life to evolve out of the seas and onto land.…  Read more

New research into an anti-inflammatory drug for treating lung disease in pre-term babies has shown it also has the potential to prevent the disease’s subsequent complication, pulmonary hypertension (PH), a vascular condition that leads to heart failure and death in 50 per cent of cases.…  Read more

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder primarily associated with an inability to initiate and control voluntary movement.…  Read more

Scientists have discovered that the gut-infecting bacterium Clostridium difficile is evolving into two separate species, with one group highly adapted to spread in hospitals.…  Read more

Dr Bilandzic, an ovarian cancer researcher, has been awarded $700,000 for research into deadly ovarian cancer cells called ‘leader cells’, which can survive and even thrive in response to cancer treatment. …  Read more

A world-first clinical trial will see women with fetal growth restriction receive daily doses of melatonin to prevent poor neurological outcomes in babies.…  Read more

For her cutting-edge study that sheds more light on how a baby’s sex is determined, PhD student Brittany Croft has received a top international accolade.…  Read more