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Westpac Scholarships support Adelaide’s future research leaders and innovators

Westpac scholars, Lachlan Holden, Anna Kalamkarian, and Jamie Priest

Posted on Feb 28 2022 by Michele Ann Nardelli

Three �Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide graduates - Lachlan Holden, Anna Kalamkarian, and Jamie Priest – have been awarded prestigious Westpac Future Leaders Scholarships to continue their research.

Precision measurement with a light touch

Posted on Feb 22 2022 by Crispin Savage

In most circumstances, disordered working conditions prevent us from performing accurate work. But in a reversal of this common wisdom, a team of researchers from the �Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide and the �Ӱ�ֱ�� of St Andrews, Scotland has achieved recent breakthroughs in precision measurement by ‘scrambling’ laser light.

Meat-eating extends human life expectancy worldwide

Posted on Feb 22 2022 by Michele Ann Nardelli

Has eating meat become unfairly demonised as bad for your health? That’s the question a global, multidisciplinary team of researchers has been studying and the results are in - eating meat still offers important benefits for overall human health and life expectancy.

'Lifestyle' wines could deliver hundreds of jobs to SA

Posted on Feb 17 2022 by Crispin Savage

Low and no-alcohol wine products could bring more than 500 jobs and add $64 million a year to South �Ӱ�ֱ��’s economy with the Marshall Liberal Government investing nearly $5 million to turbo-charge the sector locally.

Funding support to discover ways to block the migration of T-cells responsible for MS

Posted on Feb 15 2022 by Michele Ann Nardelli

�Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide Research Fellow, Dr Iain Comerford has secured funding from Multiple Sclerosis �Ӱ�ֱ�� to further his research into the factors that influence specific immune cell (T cell) migration into the bloodstream and the brain in people who have MS.

50 regional and remote schools embark on a mission to uncover new insect species

Posted on Feb 11 2022 by Kelly Brown

Fifty regional and remote schools across South �Ӱ�ֱ��, Queensland and Western �Ӱ�ֱ�� have been selected to take part in a new citizen science project, Insect Investigators, led by the South �Ӱ�ֱ��n Museum and supported by the �Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide.

New study unlocks mystery origin of iconic Aussie snakes

Posted on Feb 10 2022 by Crispin Savage

New research led by the �Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide has found the first tangible evidence that the ancestors of some of �Ӱ�ֱ��’s most venomous snakes arrived by sea rather than by land – the dispersal route of most other �Ӱ�ֱ��n reptiles.

New research puts bugs to the taste test

Posted on Feb 8 2022 by Kelly Brown

Researchers at the �Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide are embarking on a new study to develop more accurate and consumer friendly descriptions for one of the most sustainable and high protein food sources on the planet, edible insects.

Grants pave the way for further discovery

Posted on Jan 6 2022 by Crispin Savage

Twenty-two grants totalling $10,189,703 have been awarded to �Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide researchers from the Federal Government to further their work in diverse areas that will impact people’s lives in �Ӱ�ֱ�� and globally.

�Ӱ�ֱ��n doctors prescribing benzos for longer periods than recommended

The study found that in new benzodiazepines and Z-drugs users, prescribing lasts 11 months on average, which is 11 times longer than the current recommendation of no more than 4 weeks.

Posted on Dec 23 2021 by Elisa Black

�Ӱ�ֱ��n doctors are prescribing benzodiazepines and Z-drugs for longer periods than recommended, researchers from the �Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide have found.