Australasian Science - May 2016

A ustralia isnow ranked as one of the fattest nations in the world, with 14 million Australians currently overweight or obese. B ...

brain where stretching is occurring, leading to changes in gastrointestinal motility, movement of food through the gastrointesti ...

reduction in the response to stretch. This suggests that the dampened satiety signalling in cases of obesity induced by a high-f ...

T he health of our skeletal muscle is crucial for everyday activities. It provides structural support and stability to bones and ...

Fast or Slow? Long or Strong? Our skeletal muscle consists of two α-actinin proteins, α-actinin- 2 and α-actinin-3. While it was ...

actinin-3, including reduced muscle strength and increased endurance performance. It’s important to note that no single gene can ...

“T he irst thing I did when I won the Nobel Prize was to sit my wife down. I told her I was sorry. I knew everything was about t ...

“I’d like there to be something but what we do with that information when we ind it is a completely different question. Because ...

“I like to have constructive conversations to ensure they have at least heard a counterpoint view from someone who is not scream ...

‘dinosaur event’. It wouldn’t wipe out the planet, but it would probably wipe out humanity.” “Would you tell people it’s coming? ...

W e’ve all heard of the phrase: “A big baby is a healthy baby”, but this isn’t just an old wives’ tale. Larger offspring do perf ...

may also be able to feed more successfully and therefore gain more energy than smaller offspring, or they might reach a size tha ...

To test metabolic scaling on bryozoans, we spawned colonies of Bugulaand Watersiporain the lab and measured the size of individu ...

H ow many times have you attempted to multi- task today? Did you check your emails while ordering your morning coffee? Or update ...

Interestingly, our capacity limitations in these brain regions are not necessarily ixed. We have known for a long time that prac ...

B arley yellow dwarf virus is an important pathogen that reduces the yield and grain quality of impor- tant food crops such as w ...

increasedCO 2 concentrations can also cause serious changes to plant biochemistry, including an increase in carbon:nitrogen rati ...

“Ifwedon’t do it, aChinese corporation will – andthey’ll make a horrible mess of things.” That is a direct quote from a biologis ...

Internationally, stem cell science has developed incredible momentum with the promise of arevolution in medical ther- apies.This ...

“These Chinese researchers are trying to perfect the art of modi- fying genetic expression in human embryos. It follows on from ...