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Scientists engineer animals to clean up toxic mercury pollution
13, Feb 2025

Scientists engineer animals to clean up toxic mercury pollution

Australian scientists have found an effective new way to clean up methylmercury, one of the world’s most dangerous pollutants, which often builds up in our food and environment because of...

Australian Scientists Develop Groundbreaking Biosensor for Rare Earth Element Detection
30, Jan 2025

Australian Scientists Develop Groundbreaking Biosensor for Rare Earth Element Detection

Australian synthetic biologists have developed a prototype for an innovative biosensor that can detect rare earth elements and be modified for a range of other applications. Lanthanides (Lns) are elements...

Innovative vaccine technology targets Alzheimers
29, Jan 2025

Innovative vaccine technology targets Alzheimers

A multidisciplinary team is developing therapeutics that creatively combine nano-medicine and synthetic biology. Centre member Dr Andrew Care is part of a multidisciplinary team that is engineering an innovative vaccine...

Australian team delivers final piece in the synthetic life puzzle
22, Jan 2025

Australian team delivers final piece in the synthetic life puzzle

Centre researchers from Macquarie University have worked with an international team of scientists to achieve a major milestone in synthetic biology by completing the creation of the final chromosome in...

Major Funding Boost for Combating Fungal Infections
16, Jan 2025

Major Funding Boost for Combating Fungal Infections

An international research collaboration, including Macquarie University's Associate Professor Amy Cain, has received €1 million to tackle the growing global crisis of antifungal resistance. This escalating healthcare challenge is driven...

Seeding tomorrow’s synthetic biology frontiers
19, Dec 2024

Seeding tomorrow’s synthetic biology frontiers

Visionary projects explore technological, ecological and societal domains Twelve seed fund grants have been awarded for 2025, giving a boost to research as varied as horizontal gene transfer for crop...

Productivity Commission submission on circular economy
21, Nov 2024

Productivity Commission submission on circular economy

The Australian Academy of Science and ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology have joined forces on a submission to the Productivity Commission inquiry examining opportunities in the circular economy....

From Paige: Penpals program reaps award
21, Nov 2024

From Paige: Penpals program reaps award

Dr Paige Erpf of our Macquarie University node has won a top communications award for her work in the STEMpals program involving an exchange of letters between student and mentor.  STEMpals aims...

Revolutionary Facility Set to Transform Microbial Research
7, Nov 2024

Revolutionary Facility Set to Transform Microbial Research

A new joint facility with the most advanced cell sorter and microbioreactor platforms in Australia will open in Southeast Queensland The Advanced Microbial Phenotyping (AMP) facility, jointly hosted by the...

How microbes can detoxify mine waste – and unlock valuable rare earth minerals
4, Nov 2024

How microbes can detoxify mine waste – and unlock valuable rare earth minerals

By Alex Druce, University of Queensland This beaker is full of toxic red mud – a waste material produced by the tonne at mining sites across Australia. In this form,...

Ian Paulsen awarded 2024 NSW Premier’s Prize  
31, Oct 2024

Ian Paulsen awarded 2024 NSW Premier’s Prize  

Centre Director, Distinguished Professor Ian Paulsen from Macquarie University, has been awarded the 2024 NSW Premier’s Prize for Science & Engineering in the category of Excellence in Biological Sciences.  Professor...

Centre researchers win the Net Zero Grand Challenge
30, Oct 2024

Centre researchers win the Net Zero Grand Challenge

Researchers from the Centre’s University of Newcastle node have won the Net Zero Grand Challenge 2024, along with the People’s Choice Award, for their project, EcoFusion: The Carbon Conversion Revolution....