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Outstanding year for ARC Discovery Grants
30, Oct 2025

Outstanding year for ARC Discovery Grants

In a bumper year for synthetic biology, eight Centre teams have been awarded Australian Research Council Discovery grants for projects ranging from improving protein switches to creating new-to-nature silks. Centre...

Mining the genomes of blue-green algae
20, Feb 2025

Mining the genomes of blue-green algae

Cyanobacteria have acquired something of a bad reputation, with the devastating environmental consequences of blue-green algal blooms making headlines on a regular basis. But these unique photosynthetic bacteria have far...

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...