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Study shows household and family ties significant in staving off dementia
In a global study, researchers in evolutionary medicine at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide have found that people living in larger households are at reduced risk of dying from dementia and could stave off the progression of the disease for longer.
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Ageing in place successfully could be all about where you live
Research from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide has shown that neighbourhood characteristics – from the location of medical services and how much green space there is, to the number of people involved in volunteer activities - can have a significant impact on older people’s ability to age successfully at home.
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ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ scientists lead the conversation on growing the space economy
The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide’s Professor Matthew Gilliham is guiding a session on the technologies needed to support long-term space habitation at the Andy Thomas Space Foundation 13th ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Space Forum. Â
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New appointments boost international expertise in psychology, neuroscience, and public engagement
The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide has welcomed two new international appointments - Professors Elaine Fox and Kevin Dutton - to its School of Psychology, deepening its research expertise in neuroscience and psychology, and psychopathy.
ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ needs to ‘level up’ on research commercialisation
The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide’s Professor Mark Hutchinson who is President at Science and Technology ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ (STA) and Director of the Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP), will address the National Press Club on why ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ needs to ‘level up’ on research commercialisation – and how to do it.
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Westpac Scholarships support Adelaide’s future research leaders and innovators
Three ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide graduates - Lachlan Holden, Anna Kalamkarian, and Jamie Priest – have been awarded prestigious Westpac Future Leaders Scholarships to continue their research.
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Precision measurement with a light touch
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 ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide and the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of St Andrews, Scotland has achieved recent breakthroughs in precision measurement by ‘scrambling’ laser light.
Meat-eating extends human life expectancy worldwide
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.
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'Lifestyle' wines could deliver hundreds of jobs to SA
Low and no-alcohol wine products could bring more than 500 jobs and add $64 million a year to South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s economy with the Marshall Liberal Government investing nearly $5 million to turbo-charge the sector locally.
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Funding support to discover ways to block the migration of T-cells responsible for MS
ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Research Fellow, Dr Iain Comerford has secured funding from Multiple Sclerosis ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ 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.
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