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Improving car safety for Road Safety Week
With 2023 marking the highest number of lives lost on South Australian roads since 2011, the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Centre for Automotive Safety Research (CASR) highlights the importance of vehicle safety as National Road Safety Week (NRSW) kicks off.
Funding to investigate Australia’s greatest health challenges
³ÉÈË´óƬ researchers have received $14,631,111 from the National Health and Medical Research Foundation’s (NHMRF) Investigator Grants, supporting Australia’s highest-performing health researchers.
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Genetics, not lack of oxygen, causes cerebral palsy in quarter of cases
The world’s largest study of cerebral palsy (CP) genetics has discovered genetic defects are most likely responsible for more than a quarter of cases in Chinese children, rather than a lack of oxygen at birth as previously thought.
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Teaching older dogs new tricks for a longer life
Keeping the mind active as we age is often recommended to ward off or improve symptoms of dementia in people, but can the same advice also be put into practice for pet dogs as they enter their twilight years?
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It’s not all about the numbers: no overhaul of suppression orders needed
After extensive consultation and review of existing laws, the independent South Australian Law Reform Institute (SALRI), based at the ³ÉÈË´óƬ, has found that suppression orders do not need major reform.
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Researchers to investigate prevalence of PFAS in livestock
A new national study by the ³ÉÈË´óƬ will seek to understand the prevalence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Australian livestock, with researchers seeking farmers who have previously applied biosolids as fertiliser to be collaborators in the project.
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