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ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n cattle helping to meet Indonesia’s rising dairy demand

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ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide researchers are assessing opportunities for ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s live export industry to respond to Indonesia’s plan to substantially increase its dairy cattle imports, under the Indonesian Government’s .

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Highlighting the youth voice in wellbeing solutions

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Researchers from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide have taken a closer look at what is important to ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s young people in a new report.

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Improving the quality of life for men with breast cancer

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Each year, 200 men or people assigned male at birth are diagnosed with breast cancer in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥. With breast cancer often being considered solely a woman’s disease and no screening program in place, many men receive their cancer news while investigating unrelated conditions or after noticing a lump behind their nipple. ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Medical School PhD candidate Dr Steve Kinsey-Trotman is researching how a breast cancer diagnosis impacts men’s quality of life.

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New research reveals ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s rapid red fox invasion

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One of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s most devastating invasive predators took just 60 years to colonise the whole continent, according to new research from Curtin ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide that offers vital clues to preventing future extinctions of native animals from foxes.

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New funding to help understand early pregnancy loss

Sarah Robertson

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide’s Professor Sarah Robertson has secured funding to take a closer look at how immune dysfunction can contribute to early pregnancy loss in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n women.

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New investment targets better treatments for back pain

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ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n MedTech company Evolution Surgical will invest $2 million over the next decade in partnership with the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide to advance research into spinal conditions such as lower back pain, scoliosis, and degenerative cervical myelopathy – the most common non-traumatic spinal cord injury in older adults.

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Seafood unfairly singled out in microplastics debate

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Seafood has received disproportionate attention in media coverage about microplastics, despite evidence that fish and shellfish are not the main source of human exposure, according to a new scientific review.

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Men’s health: What we know and where to next?

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A public symposium will explore the important and sometimes surprising findings from two of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s most comprehensive male cohort studies.

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Research ties fossil fuel projects to warming, climate disasters

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An emissions-impact calculation method used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been employed to assess the amount of warming a single ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n fossil fuel project will cause based on its projected CO2 emissions, and the follow-on impacts to human health and the environment.

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Genetic study advances understanding of healthy ageing

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New research from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide has explored the genomic links within the index used to measure healthy ageing — Intrinsic capacity (IC), paving the way for potential targeted interventions.

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