University students are being enticed to earn quick cash and help advance medical science by being a human guinea pig for pharmaceutical companies trialling new drugs. But it’s not just the money that drives them to sign up.
It is hoped the major advance could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant.
Trevor Lambkin has been travelling to the Torres Strait for nearly 40 years to catalogue butterflies. What he has found is an ecosystem at serious risk from climate change.
Scientists have shown the success of a method of suppressing the population of mosquitoes which spread tropical diseases like dengue fever,leading to hopes of halting the spread of the deadly illnesses.
The medical journal’s choice of words was meant to be inclusive but merely highlighted how language has become a battleground.
Our bodies compensate for at least a quarter of the calories we expend during exercise,undermining our best efforts to lose weight by working out.
New genetic research validates an almost 70-year-old theory first posited by Alan Turing,famous for cracking the Nazi Enigma code.
The mosquito-borne disease is being spread around the world via several hotspots,including some in Queensland,researchers have found.
The blue-tongued lizard has developed defences that make it almost impervious to red-bellied black snake venom,scientists have discovered.
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Settling on the right temperature is a common household dispute. And while there are key physiological reasons,often tied to gender,it’s also about our behaviour.