Children with the rare genetic disease Epidermolysis Bullosa face a lifetime of pain due to constant blistering of their skin and other body surfaces. The University of South Australia’s Zlatko Kopecki has developed a product to help these kids, and which could potentially treat all people with inflammatory skin conditions.
The leading cause of death in patients receiving chemotherapy for cancer is not cancer: it’s blood clots. Rebecca Sharp from University of South Australia has devised a new approach to reduce the development of clots and save patients’ lives.
A new medical device uses iron particles and a magnetic probe to nail down the spread of tumours. Developed by Aidan Cousins with colleagues at the University of South Australia, the new approach is more sensitive and safer than existing methods for monitoring cancer.
Enduring a risky but important prenatal diagnostic procedure is one of scariest aspects of pregnancy for women aged over 35. Marnie Winter wants to remove that trauma through developing a safer way to analyse fetal DNA in the early months of gestation. “I’m working on a new technique to isolate fetal cells from maternal blood…
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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.
