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Monthly Archives: July 2016
Travel Story: Dr Clare van Eyk
Dr Clare van Eyk from the Robinson Research Institute’s Neurogenetics and Australian Collaborative Cerebral Palsy Research Group attended the International Conference on Cerebral Palsy and other Childhood-onset disabilities in Stockholm, Sweden in June 2016. Clare was invited to give a talk on her research When is a mutation pathogenic? Functional studies on candidate cerebral palsy […]
Travel Story: Emily Shepherd
Emily Shepherd from the Robinson Research Institute’s Health of Women and Babies Research Group attended the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) 20th Annual Congress, Townsville, in April 2016. Emily presented on her research Planned early birth versus expectant management for prelabour rupture of membranes at term: a Cochrane systematic review. This is […]
Travel Story: Siew Leng Wong
Siew Leng Wong from the Robinson Research Institute’s Ovarian Cell Biology Research Group attended the 6th Congress of The Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction, Jakarta, Indonesia in April 2016. Siew presented on her research Cholesterol in oocytes is required for embryogenesis and membrane functional domains in blastocysts. This is what Siew had to say about […]
Travel Story: Dr Tod Fullston
Dr Tod Fullston from the Robinson Research Institute’s Gamete and Embryo Biology Research Group attended the Obesity Summit and Reproductive Health Summit in London, UK in April 2016. Tod was invited to give talks on his research Paternal obesity alters sperm non-coding RNAs, which can program embryo and offspring development and Sperm non-coding RNAs can […]
Media Release: Boy babies at greater risk of pregnancy complications
New research led by the University of Adelaide has confirmed that boy babies are much more likely to experience potentially life-threatening outcomes at birth than girls. The research, which investigated data of more than 574,000 South Australian births over a 30-year period (1981-2011), is the first population-based study of its kind in Australia to confirm […]
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Media Release: Extra 1,000 steps a day benefit children with type 1 diabetes
Keeping count of daily steps and boosting physical activity can really pay off for children with type 1 diabetes, according to new research from the University of Adelaide and the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. For the first time, researchers have shown that children who have type 1 diabetes can improve their cardiovascular health, simply by taking an […]
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