On the latest Hamish & Andy podcast (23 April), Andy Lee revealed how he'd discovered a flask of suspicious powder behind the wall of his 1876 house in Melbourne.

He and colleague Hamish Blake wanted to know whether it was some kind of 19th-Century poison - or another illicit substance? They put the call out for a qualified person to provide answers and AusHealth's expert toxicologist Dr John Edwards stepped up.

Solutions for Manufacturing Advanced Regenerative Therapies (SMART) CRC has been announced today by The Hon Ed Husic MP Minister for Industry and Science.

AusHealth is one of the architects of the new cooperative research centre, designed to grow Australia’s biomanufacturing industry and take radical regenerative therapies out of the laboratory and into the real world.

Antimicrobial resistance is predicted to cause 10 million deaths by 2050. Could phage therapy be the solution?

This week saw the official launch of the AusHealth Phage Therapy Centre. It’s home to a team of researchers who are taking up arms against one of the greatest challenges modern medicine faces – the rise of antimicrobial resistance.

The Platypep venom project, funded by AusHealth since 2016, has taken another step toward creating an Australian-made version of Ozempic.

The research team has successfully identified a ‘hero peptide’ – derived from platypus venom – that reduces food intake, prevents weight gain and improves metabolic health in mice.

We celebrated seven exceptional PhD students working on cutting-edge research in cell and biological therapies at a formal presentation last week. They each won $10,000.

Thanks to Professor Glenn King, who gave a fascinating snapshot of his research – turning novel peptides found in spider venoms into life-saving drugs for heart disease, stroke, epilepsy and more.

“It’s amazing! It’s taking us just five minutes to code a case instead of 20 minutes…”

On Wednesday 19 March, AI developer HeartAI and AusHealth launched a live version of CODEXA, the AI-powered software set to revolutionise the way Australian hospitals are reimbursed for patient care.