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Monash BDI scientists shine in Victorian Cancer Agency grants

Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) researchers have scooped nearly half of the Victorian Cancer Agency’s (VCA) 2020 Mid-Career Research Fellowships (Biomedical Stream).
17 February, 2021 Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Sophisticated imaging exposes elaborate cell transport system

Intracellular transport – the internal movement of cell components along myriad pathways – is incredibly complex, dynamic and difficult to observe using traditional imaging approaches.
17 February, 2021 Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Professor Ross Coppel

Worried about the vaccine? Don’t be – we will be well protected

As we start the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines this month, questions raised over whether the two that are the pillars of the initial program, from AstraZeneca and Pfizer, are the right ones – compared with the vaccines in use in other
17 February, 2021 News

COVID-19 vaccine health-care workforce rollout begins

Monash BDI researcher Professor Anton Peleg was interviewed by ABC radio (46:06 – 52:16) host Virginia Trioli about the logistics of the COVID-19 rollout for health care workers at the Alfred Hospital.
16 February, 2021 Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Fear not, antibodies are fit to tackle COVID variants

The Atlantic ran a feature story about the body’s defence against coronavirus variants in which Monash BDI’s Associate Professor Kim Good-Jacobson appeared.
13 February, 2021 Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Monash BDI scientist shortlisted for international award

Talented, driven, dynamic, innovative, generous  and “a scientific superstar” –  are a few of the descriptions of Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) scientist Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou made by those
9 February, 2021 Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Soil bacteria hormone discovery provides fertile ground for new antibiotics

Mechanism for control of antibiotic production in soil bacteria is visualised for the first time by scientists at University of Warwick and Monash University
4 February, 2021 News

Breatharian bacteria breakdown greenhouse gases and toxic pollutants

Soil bacteria play a much greater role in regulating our atmosphere than previously thought.
8 January, 2021 Biomedicine Discovery Institute

It's a gas: How soil feeds on the air that we breathe

The soil in a grassland, a forest, a wetland and a desert is quietly working, transforming trace gases in the atmosphere.
8 January, 2021 News