Hey folks, it’s been a while. I promise there’s quite a bit to update you all with, and will try to do so in the coming weeks. In the meantime, I was proud to be a marshal at the Melbourne…
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Vote in the Centenary Institute’s Lawrence Creative Prize
Hey guys, long time no post. Trust me, there’s more coming soon when I can find the time to talk about some of the recent metal-centric work coming from our lab. In the meantime, I’ve entered the Centenary Institute’s Lawrence…
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New Research: Can lead and manganese in blood identify Alzheimer’s disease?
Unfortunately not. Lead has been in the news a lot recently; you’d have to be hiding under a rock to not know about the current environmental tragedy happening in Flint, Michigan, where toxic levels of lead have been found in…
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New Research: Changing metal levels in traumatic brain injury
It’s been a while since we’ve been active here, but as annual money-begging season has drawn to a close, it’s time to update everyone on the slew of new papers coming from our lab. Over the next few weeks, there’ll…
Fiona Larner: Looking at cancer from a different angle
Dr Fiona Larner from the University of Oxford’s Department of Earth Sciences might not sound like she’s in the right place to be studying cancer, but Fiona’s work is a testament to how understanding the role of metals in disease takes…
As the year comes to a close…
…I’ve finally got around to updating our publications for 2015. You can find them here, and a lot of them are open access, so you can take a look for free. More will be added over the coming days.
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Imaging metals in worms
Caenorhabditis elegans might not be an animal you’re particularly familiar with, but this humble little worm is one of the most important tools we have for studying metals in biological systems. These 1 mm long roundworms are self-fertilising, meaning you…
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Sneak peak: 3D printing metals in the brain
We’ve been harping on about our recent Chemical Science paper, which officially was published this week and can be downloaded for free here. Firstly, thanks to our friend Jonas Marnell of Ethix Design in Melbourne for the amazing cover artwork shown here. Anyway, we’re…
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