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Fellowship winners make cancer their focus

5 March 2010

Two outstanding female scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have been awarded research fellowships worth $1.75 million to continue their cancer research.

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Elizabeth Blackburn receives Nobel Prize

5 October 2009

Elizabeth Blackburn will receive the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
She shares the prize with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.”
She’s USA-based but Australian-born and visits Australia quite often.

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Hunting supernovae and dark energy, Finding the first Australians, What it takes to make a human

24 August 2009

Where did we come from; how are we made; and how will it all end?

These fundamental questions are being tackled by the 2009 L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellows who received their Fellowship from Mark Tucker, CEO of L’Oréal Australia, at a ceremony at L’Oréal’s Australian head office in Melbourne on Tuesday 25 August.

The Fellows are:

* Tamara Davis, University of Queensland, Brisbane/University of Copenhagen
* Marnie Blewitt, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
* Zenobia Jacobs, University of Wollongong

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Could your hair colour determine your child’s sex?

20 March 2009

In Gouldian finches the answer is yes-according to an Australian paper published in the journal Science today. The paper challenges our view of sex determination in animals.
“Over eighty per cent of Gouldian finch chicks will be male if their mother sees that the father has a different coloured head,” says the lead author Sarah Pryke, [...]

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Celebrate International Women’s Day with Australian women scientists

6 March 2009

Marking International Women’s Day, five of the world’s women leaders in science each received the $US100,000 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science at a ceremony in Paris.
The five laureates have diverse interests – from light-based cancer therapy to the life of stars. There are no Australian recipients this year.
In Australia, L’Oréal provides $20,000 fellowships for [...]

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Clockwise or anti-clockwise: Left-handed plants and big ecology prove Bart Simpson wrong again

26 August 2008

Australian researchers have found that 92% of vines twist anti-clockwise—regardless of their location north or south of the equator.
The work, announced today at the L’Oréal For Women in Science Fellowship ceremony in Melbourne, is a small part of a vast body of work to understand how plants around the world vary and adapt to climate.

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Platypus sex; drugs from shellfish toxins; the secret of ageing; cancer cells cheat death

4 March 2008

Four leading Australian and NZ scientists are in Paris from 5 March for the 10th anniversary of the L’ORÉAL/ UNESCO For Women In Science program.

They’re all available to discuss the latest developments in their research:

* The secret of ageing – telomerase
* How cancer cells cheat death
* How the platypus and wallaby genome are revealing human secrets
* Deadly shellfish toxins that may fight pain and save lives

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L’Oréal Australia Fellow launches sexual health study

4 March 2008

One in ten Australian women suffer from bacterial vaginosis (BV). But how is it spread?
First year female students at the University of Melbourne are being sought to take part in a study on bacterial vaginosis (BV), a common but poorly understood known genital disease.
The study, which starts today, has been initiated by L’Oréal Australia For [...]

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Inaugural L’ORÉAL Australia For Women in Science Fellowships

28 August 2007

“Beauty meets science”
The world needs science. Science needs women. The inaugural L’ORÉAL Australia For Women In Science Fellowships have been presented to four inspirational early career scientists.
“We hope these $20,000 Fellowships will help these women consolidate their careers and rise to leadership positions in science,” says L’ORÉAL Australia managing director Mark Tucker. “The [...]

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