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Environment - Campus - 22.03.2024
Research unlocks potential to revolutionise construction waste recycling
Office of the Interim Vice-President (Strategy & Major Projects) & Vice-Chancellor's Chief of Staff Office of the Interim Vice-President (Strategy & Major Projects) & Vice-Chancellor's Chief of Staff There was no time to waste as researchers trawled through skip bins across Melbourne construction sites, capturing hundreds of photos of materials destined for landfill.

Pharmacology - Health - 14.03.2024
Participants needed for study of promising drug for hand osteoarthritis
Patients with painful hand osteoarthritis are needed to test an existing drug that showed promising results in a trial led by Monash University and Alfred Health. Published in The Lancet in late 2023, the stage 3 trial investigated methotrexate, a low-cost, effective treatment for inflammatory joint conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis.

Psychology - Social Sciences - 26.02.2024
New research highlights long-term mental health benefits of school belonging
New research highlights long-term mental health benefits of school belonging
School belonging, characterised by positive affect towards school, strong relationships with teachers, and feeling socially valued, has long been associated with immediate benefits for students' mental health. The project was a collaboration between Monash University, Deakin University, Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the University of Melbourne.

Pharmacology - 16.02.2024
Ultrasound jolts lazy sperm to life, offering hope in male infertility
Exposing "lazy" human sperm to ultrasound can increase their swimming activity more than three-fold and improve the success rate of assisted reproduction, a new study has found. Engineering researchers at Monash University have shown that 20 seconds of ultrasound at 800 mW and 40 MHz increased measures of sperm motility (their swimming ability) by up to 266% and reduced the proportion of inactive or 'nonprogressive' sperm from 36% to just 10%.

Health - Campus - 06.02.2024
World-first discovery may enable an effective long-term lupus treatment
Australian researchers have worked out how to fix a defect that causes lupus, and hope their world-first discovery will offer effective long-term treatment. Published in Nature Communications , the Monash University-led study found a way to reprogram the defective cells of lupus patients with protective molecules from healthy people.

Health - Pharmacology - 05.02.2024
Innovative modelling may help breast cancer patients who don't respond to treatment
Monash University-led research is using maths to predict how new combination therapies can help patients with breast cancer who no longer respond to conventional therapies. Published in NPJ Precision Oncology , the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) study investigated breast cancer driven by a specific protein, PI3K, and how new combination therapies could effectively shut it down.

Life Sciences - 02.02.2024
Simpler alternative to intermittent fasting
Simpler alternative to intermittent fasting
Monash scientists have identified a less stringent and more manageable alternative to traditional intermittent fasting, offering new possibilities for extending lifespan and promoting healthy ageing. This novel method, involving short-term isoleucine deprivation, has shown remarkable results in fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster ), opening up new avenues for understanding dietary impacts on longevity and health maintenance.

Campus - Health - 02.02.2024
AI helps reveal the ancient origin story of floral colours
AI helps reveal the ancient origin story of floral colours
New research led by Monash University experts used computer simulations to reveal the ancient link between bees and the evolution of colours in flowers. Lead author and NativeBee+Tech Facility Director Associate Professor Alan Dorin, from the Faculty of Information Technology, said insects like bees developed visual perception well before the first flowers appeared so that they could fly and orient themselves among rocks, leaves, sticks and bark.

Health - Pharmacology - 30.11.2023
Very high levels of 'good cholesterol' may be associated with dementia risk: study
Very high levels of ’good cholesterol’ may be associated with dementia risk: study
Researchers said very high levels of HDL-C linked to dementia risk in this study were uncommon and not diet related, but more likely to reflect a metabolic disorder. The findings may help doctors to recognise a group of older patients potentially at risk of dementia, particularly in those aged 75 and older.

Pedagogy - Campus - 21.11.2023
Groundbreaking research into the imaginary play of infants and toddlers
A landmark study from Monash University has found that infants and toddlers are capable of engaging in imaginary play, correcting previously held academic beliefs that they were unable to, and confirming the profound significance of imaginative play in early childhood education. Funded through the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship scheme, the five year programmatic study, which involved researchers from the Faculty of Education at Monash University, engaged with over 2,500 educators and young children.

Politics - 26.05.2023
Australian politics drive Anglosphere values
Strategic decisions and debates about Australian values are shaped in the Anglosphere, a new research paper reveals. A Monash University paper published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations identifies how major strategic decisions and debates about national values have been shaped by Australia's role in the 'Anglosphere'.

Environment - Chemistry - 22.05.2023
Vinegar could be secret ingredient in fight against climate crisis
Vinegar could be secret ingredient in fight against climate crisis
Chemical engineers at Monash University have developed an industrial process to produce acetic acid that uses the excess carbon dioxide(CO2) in the atmosphere, and has a potential to create negative carbon emissions. This world-first research, published in Nature Communications , shows that acetic acid can be made from captured CO2 using an economical solid catalyst to replace the liquid rhodium or iridium based catalysts currently used.

Economics - 05.04.2023
Thumbs down: Why using too many emojis to substitute words can harm your chances online
Thumbs down: Why using too many emojis to substitute words can harm your chances online
Sad face news for heavy emoji users. If you want to sell something online - say some nights at your Airbnb, or your old couch on Facebook Marketplace - you might assume a heavy sprinkling of emojis will help you stand out from the pack. You may even substitute some words with emojis to save space. The paper, which studied emoji use across more than 195,000 Airbnb listings in the US, is the first to look specifically at the effects of 'non-face emojis' in marketing communication, and offers important insights for digital marketers and other sellers.

Computer Science - Agronomy / Food Science - 23.02.2023
Farming with AI: Optimising pollination for better food production
A new monitoring system developed by Monash researchers uses artificial intelligence (AI) to track bees' movement to help improve pollination and crop yield. The research, published in the International Journal of Computer Vision , involved recording pollinators like honey bees, hover flies, moths, butterflies and wasps, to build a database of over 2000 insect tracks at a commercial strawberry farm in Victoria.

Health - Pharmacology - 19.12.2022
Global study presents first results on the longer-term effects of therapies for the treatment of critically ill patients with COVID-19
Global study presents first results on the longer-term effects of therapies for the treatment of critically ill patients with COVID-19
Published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ), the study is part of the ongoing Randomized Embedded Multifactorial Adaptive Platform for Community Acquired Pneumonia (REMAP-CAP) trial and was led by Monash University's Dr Lisa Higgins from the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Health - 19.12.2022
Researchers identify ’born to be bad’ colorectal cancer tumours
An international research team has identified 'born to be bad' colorectal tumours in people with early stage cancer, which could help medical experts pinpoint and better treat aggressive tumours. The team from Monash University , CRUK Beatson Institute in Glasgow and Queens University in Belfast found a feature of early-stage colorectal tumours in mice and humans, known as TGF? signalling, that is active in tumour cells and is profoundly tumour-promoting.

Health - Social Sciences - 12.12.2022
Being off work sick or injured linked to higher risk of suicide
People who are off work due to injury or illness are at higher risk of later suicide and intentional self-harm, a new international study by Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine researchers has found. They collated findings from 47 studies published over 20 years from 16 different countries, to closely examine the relationship between a disabling work injury or illness, and later suicide or self-harm.

Health - Life Sciences - 01.12.2022
Australian public strongly supports DNA screening for risk of medically actionable conditions: study
Nine in 10 Australians would participate in preventive DNA screening for risk of medically actionable conditions, a new national survey has found. Published in the Journal of Medical Genetics , the Monash University-led survey results come as a world-first Australian DNA screening program for some cancers and heart disease called DNA Screen recently attracted more than 20,000 volunteers in its first week.

Innovation - 22.11.2022
Monash sperm syringe offers new hope to infertile couples
Monash sperm syringe offers new hope to infertile couples
The world-first syringe can isolate quality sperm in less than 15 minutes and is the biggest innovation in sperm selection technology in 30 years. The breakthrough, made by a team of Monash bioengineering researchers, harnesses simple plastic syringe technology, which can be readily mass produced, bringing hope and cheaper treatment solutions to 180 million people affected by infertility worldwide.

Health - Economics - 21.11.2022
Inaction could cost truckies their lives: Study
If nothing is done to improve the health of Australia's male truck drivers, 6067 lives and AU$2.6 billion in productivity could be lost over the next 10 years, Monash University-led research has found. Researchers have also found that inaction could cost an estimated $485 million in healthcare costs and 21,173 lost years of life due to work-related diseases or injury in the truck driving industry.
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