Health & Fitness

The globally ranked number one Diamonds netball team is financially afloat again, thanks to Victorian Premiere Dan Andrews and the Visit Victoria tourism body. 

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Toni Riley, pharmicist and Project Manager at the RUM Project (Return Unwanted Medicines), discusses the risks of throwing away medications for your family's - and the environment's - health. 

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A new technique to improve the coating of nanoparticles used in cancer therapy may enhance tumor targeting.

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A new way of reprogramming our immune cells to shrink or kill off cancer cells has been shown to work in the otherwise hard to treat and devastating skin cancer, melanoma. The discovery demonstrates a new way to clear early stage pre-cancerous and even late-stage tumor cells.

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The parasite Toxoplasma is carried by a large portion of the global human population. Now a study shows how this microscopic parasite so successfully spreads in the body, for example to the brain. The parasite infects immune cells and hijacks their identity.

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Using immunofluorescence and live-cell imaging, researchers were recently able to determine the mechanism underlying the repairing mechanism of the nuclear envelope, which play a key role in various physiologically relevant processes. The accidental rupture of the structure poses a hazard to the integrity of the mammalian nucleus. The study found that lamin C and related factors synergistically facilitate the repair process in mammalian cells.

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A prodrug form of curcumin, TBP1901, has shown anti-tumor effects without toxicities. The enzyme GUSB was identified for its key role in TBP1901 conversion to curcumin, which also has essential therapeutic targets.

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