Latest News 06/2010

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...

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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...

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Blood-thinning copycat enters malaria fight

New treatments for malaria are possible after Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists found that molecules similar to the blood-thinning drug heparin can stop malaria from infecting red blood cells.

Malaria is an infection of red blood cells that is transmitted by mosquitoes. The most common...

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