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Major NHMRC grant prioritises strong skin for Aboriginal childrenEfforts to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal children have been accelerated thanks to almost $1 million in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funds awarded to skin health researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia.
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Active books for active kids!Walk through the jungle, hunt for the bear, or do the animal bop this Book Week! Acting out stories is a wonderful way to encourage active play with your child.
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Cutting edge spatial maps reveal Western Pacific hotspots for parasitic wormsA global research team led by geospatial modelling experts from The Kids Research Institute Australia and Curtin University has provided the first detailed maps identifying hotspots across the Western Pacific Region where debilitating parasitic worms are rife.
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Generous new funding to fast-track rare disease diagnosis and unlock new treatmentsResearch that screens novel genetic variants identified in disease will be fast-tracked by a funding boost, offering new hope of an early diagnosis for families of children with a rare or undiagnosed genetic disease.
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Reduced immune responses in chimeric mice engrafted with bone marrow cells from mice with airways inflammation.During respiratory inflammation, it is generally assumed that dendritic cells differentiating from the bone marrow are immunogenic rather than immunoregulatory.
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Transcriptional dynamics reveal critical roles for non-coding RNAs in the immediate-early responseThe immediate-early response mediates cell fate in response to a variety of extracellular stimuli and is dysregulated in many cancers.
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Relationship between cytokine expression patterns and clinical outcomes: two population-based birth cohortsOur findings suggest that positive HDM 'allergy tests' and asthma are associated with a broad range of immunophenotypes, which may have important...