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22/07/10
Toxic trio identified as the basis of coeliac disease
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have identified the three protein fragments that make gluten - the main protein in wheat, rye and barley – toxic to people with coeliac disease.
Their discovery opens the way for a new generation of diagnostics, treatments, prevention strategies and food...
10/06/10
Cell death insights lead to premier’s award commendation
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientist Dr Mark McKenzie has this week been commended in the Victorian Government’s Premier’s Award for Public Health and Medical Research.
Dr McKenzie, a Leukaemia Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the institute’s Molecular Medicine division, received the...
04/06/10
Gates open on understanding potassium channel controls
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have made a significant advance in understanding how potassium channels, which permit the flow of electric currents central to many of the body’s biological processes, control the flow of these currents.
Dr Jacqui Gulbis from the institute’s Structural...