Engineering floating liquid marbles for three-dimensional cell cultures A liquid marble is a tiny water droplet, the size of a pinhead, coated with non-stick powder. The liquid marble acts like a miniature laboratory: cells can be grown inside it. Chin Hong Ooi (Griffith University) and colleagues are the first in the world to grow human…
Peering inside the body of tadpoles to understand the impacts of elemental contaminants Human activities, such as mining and agriculture, release a large number and amount of heavy metals and other toxic elements that can harm wildlife into our waterways. Chantal Lanctot’s (Griffith University) research looks at how these contaminants accumulate in and impact native frogs.…
Queensland Fresh Scientist uses virtual reality in a quest to find new ways of treating the persistent pain that affects 1 in 5 people For immediate release, Monday 5 September, 2016 Treating the pain that persists after injuries have healed may mean re-training the brain using tools like virtual reality rather than managing the pain…
Queensland Fresh Scientist ‘Judge’s Award’ winner discovers a compound that kills sleeping sickness parasites For immediate release, Wednesday 31 August 2016 In a breakthrough for those infected by the parasites that cause sleeping sickness, a young Queensland researcher has identified a compound that kills the parasites in the lab without having any toxic effect on human…
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Fresh Science is a national competition and training program helping early-career researchers find and share their stories of discovery.
We take young researchers with no media experience and help them become media spokespeople for their science, and reach stakeholders in government and industry.
Fresh Science gives finalists a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training, a day of training in stakeholder engagement, and a public event in their home state.
Alumni of the program include Professor Allan Duffy and Dr Niraj Lal.
Read some of the fresh science we discovered in 2021 here.
