New blood pressure categories are helping to inform the development of more accurate measurement devices, following a discovery by Tasmanian researchers. Blood pressure subtleties are being missed by the current cuff measure, according to a recent study led by Dean Picone of the Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania.
The oceans around East Antarctica are becoming acidic at a faster rate than expected, and could become toxic to some forms of marine life in the next 15 years. The findings are the result of research led by Nick Roden at the University of Tasmania and CSIRO, following a building on a twenty year program…
The dream of affordable personalised medicine is one step closer to reality as a Tasmanian scientist shrinks a drug-testing laboratory to a size of a hand. Aliaa Shallan, a PhD student at the University of Tasmania’s school of chemistry, is developing a portable unit that can analyse the drug quinine, using a single drop of…
Trees can die of hunger, as well as thirst, when they succumb to drought, a Tasmanian scientist has found. Dr Patrick Mitchell, of the CSIRO, has discovered that drought affects two different parts of a tree’s life support system, which can lead to the tree’s demise. “We previously thought that trees die when their plumbing…
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