News: School of Biological Sciences

Letting faeces provide the facts

Tahlia Perry SA Science Awards

Known in the scientific world as scat or faeces, poo can give a lot of very important information about an animal. This explains why Dr Tahlia Perry called on people nationwide to send her some.

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Esteemed lecturers inspire a career in STEM

Michelle Guzik

Michelle Guzik sat up and listened at university. And the impact of those lectures has never left her.

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Precision measurement with a light touch

Glass developed by IPAS for the image chamber of Coretec’s CSpace 3D volumetric display.

Precision measurement with a light touch In most circumstances, disordered working conditions prevent us from performing accurate work.

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Fossil discovery rewrites history of modern human arrival in Europe

Martina Demuro field work

Human occupation in Europe was almost 10,000 years earlier than previously documented, a discovery that stands to rewrite modern human and Neanderthal histories on the continent.

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Funding support to discover ways to block the migration of T-cells responsible for MS

Lymphocyte closeup view of t-cell or b-cell

University of Adelaide Research Fellow, Dr Iain Comerford has secured funding from Multiple Sclerosis Australia 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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50 regional and remote schools embark on a mission to uncover new insect species

Fly insect investigators - Erinn Fagan-Jeffries

Schools across South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia will document their local insect biodiversity and discover new insects in their area.

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Australia's deadliest snakes arrived by sea

Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus) Credit: Max Tibby- Snake Catchers Adelaide

New research led by the University of Adelaide has found the first tangible evidence that the ancestors of some of Australia’s most venomous snakes arrived by sea rather than by land.

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University of Adelaide science community recognised in Australia Day Honours

Professor Helen Marshall

The University of Adelaide congratulates alumni, staff and friends recognised in the 2022 Australia Day Honours list.

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Roadmap for a better, greener, marine aquaculture sector

Oyster farm

It’s one of the world’s fastest growing food industries and, with the introduction of some new strategies investigated by researchers at the University of Adelaide and The Nature Conservancy, marine aquaculture could soon be one of its greenest.

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