Medical experts say the dual threats of Sydney’s worsening outbreak and the infectiousness of the Delta variant mean Victorians are likely to spend a large portion of 2021 in lockdown.
The country’s top universities have about 3500 final-year student doctors who can be deployed to help ramp up the vaccine rollout once more supply comes online.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of vaccine development forever.
Australia needs to revise its legislation around research into early human life,to reflect new international recommendations and allow crucial breakthroughs to happen.
The universities of Sydney,New South Wales,Monash and Queensland have engaged former journalist and policy adviser John Garnaut to detect foreign interference risks.
Students at the University of Melbourne and Monash University have delivered a bruising assessment of their study experience during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
The discoveries offer access to some of the first moments of human life – and open up a host of new ethical questions.
Australian researchers’ development of model embryos will ethically improve treatments for a wide range of critical medical issues.
The model embryos,which use no egg or sperm,offer a chance to study the earliest days of human development,but there are calls for a debate over their status and what research can ethically be performed on them.
An academic journal has retracted an article after an internal investigation by Monash University found a senior research fellow plagiarised a student’s work.
Researchers are challenging the narrative that unionism was born in the 1850s with the Eureka Rebellion,saying convicts also stood up for their rights.