A clinician-led research team has developed a gene-editing platform that could give doctors more control over cell therapies, ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously overlooked immune cell that can recognise and kill small cell lung cancer, the most ...

Professor Guillaume Lessene has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS) for ...

Behind every breakthrough in immune health are the people, samples and data that drive discovery. The challenge lies in turning that wealth of information into actionable insights. Through its new ...

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Keeping mitochondria healthy depends on tight quality control, and ubiquitination has emerged as a central mechanism governing mitochondrial dynamics, protein import into mitochondria, mitophagy, and ...

Dr Charis Teh has received an inaugural Senior Galli Research Fellowship, a prestigious new program aimed at backing future biomedical research leaders. The fellowship supports her work to uncover how ...

WEHI researchers have revealed how an ‘accordion effect’ is critical to switching off genes, in a study that transforms the fundamentals of what we know about gene silencing. The finding expands our ...

Australian researchers have for the first time pinpointed specific genetic changes that increase the risk of severe, sight-threatening forms of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). A new study, ...

A compilation of wehi.tv DNA animations created between 2002-2014. This edit was created for the exhibition “The Future Starts Here” at the V&A South Kensington, UK (2018).

Homologous recombination is crucial in repairing double-strand breaks in DNA, correcting errors, and maintaining genomic integrity. This animation highlights the role of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in DNA break ...