Research Stories

Beacon of Hope For Obesity Using the latest sophisticated molecular biology techniques and a unique animal model, the Metabolic Research Unit at Deakin University has discovered a new gene involved in the control of appetite... More
Bulimia - Binge Drinking Link A Deakin University psychologist says an unrecognised link between the eating disorder bulimia and binge drinking means that many women suffering from both disorders are not receiving effective treatment... More
Self-Examination And Cancer Does breast self-examination reduce mortality from breast cancer? Surprisingly, despite costly national publicity campaigns in Australia... More
Culture, Gender and Hepatitis C In the perilous age of HIV/AIDS and a host of sexually transmissible diseases, the prescription for a long life and good sexual health is safe sex... More
Artificial Intelligence System Helps Teachers Teach Humans learn as much from failure as success - make enough mistakes, and you'll eventually learn the right way. But what is true in the university of life is not necessarily true in the classroom... More
Copper And Menke's Disease Copper is a Jekyll-and-Hyde element in the human body - in small quantities it has an essential and benign role in normal development and metabolism, but in excess or deficiency, it can be a killer... More
Parallel Computing As you read, watch TV or mow the lawn, your brain is hard at work. Beneath the surface of conscious thought, billions of neurons are silently networking, analysing information, formulating ideas and exploring problems... More
Molecular Lego Research chemists have long dreamed of developing an artificial photosynthesis system that, like green plants, could capture and store the energy of sunlight in energy-rich molecules... More
Education At A Distance In little more than 15 years, new communications technology has profoundly changed distance education in Australia... More
No Quick-Fix For Child Abuse Would you be prepared to accuse a parent or guardian or even a colleague of abusing a child physically or sexually, after just two hours' training to recognise the symptoms?... More
Diet, Exercise And Muscle Before a marathon or a triathlon, or a long-distance swim, elite athletes usually "carbo-load" with huge plates of pasta, bread, fruit, a sugary drink and perhaps, at the starting line... More
Nutrition And Chronic Disease You're overweight and unfit, so you embark on diet of lettuce leaves and skim milk, and start running like a rabbit in the mornings... More
Memories Of War In the last decade one of the more important developments in the history of warfare, both internationally and within Australia, has been the study of the memorialisation of war and the relationship between history and memory... More
Export Opportunity For Eel Farmers It's not only the world's marine fisheries that are in decline - international stocks of freshwater eels are dwindling, creating a market opportunity for Australian eel farmers... More
Quest For The Right Stuff The face that gazes back at you from the mirror each morning is so familiar to you that it's easy to forget it's not really the one that your family and friends know, or that photographs capture... More
Brachiopods Help Reunite Gondwana The observant beachcomber on Phillip Island, in Victoria's Westernport Bay, will occasionally find a strange bivalved organism whose half-shells don't match - one half has... More
Research Results On The Factory Floor Streamlining the stamping process to improve the panels on the new model Falcons is the research driving Deakin University masters student Tim Hilditch... More
Building A Masterpiece In the eyes of the 1 to 2 million people who visit it every year - locals, tourists, artists and architects - Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church is the greatest work of architectural genius of the modern era... More
Questions For A Sea Monster It's big, ponderous and ugly, and dwells in the frigid, sunless depths between 300-400 metres on the margins of south-eastern Australia's continental shelf... More