Dr Matthew Snelson
Spread out flat, the gut lining covers around 32 square metres, about the floor space of a small studio apartment. It has an important job: to let nutrients through while keeping trillions of bacteria in the gut where they belong. In people with conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes and kidney disease, this barrier becomes…
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Dr Fiona Panther
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime, produced when the super-dense remnants of dead stars collide. They are our only direct window into the interiors of neutron stars: objects whose centers are a soup of quarks and gluons, almost identical to the Universe a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. They…
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Dr Kai Chen
Many diseases, including bone and joint conditions and cancers, are driven by changes in how individual cells use nutrients. Much of this biology remains hidden because it occurs deep within complex tissues and at extremely small scales. A major challenge is that conventional methods often require cells to be removed from their natural environment. These…
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Dr Amelia Harray
Every day we eat, drink and breathe in tiny plastic particles and the invisible chemicals they release. Scientists have found microplastics in placentas, lungs and even human brains. More than 16,000 chemicals are added to plastics, such as BPA and phthalates, that enter our bodies and mimic our hormones. They have been linked to infertility,…
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Dr Xiaomin Xu
Dr Xiaomin Xu, Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, is developing low-cost materials to make clean hydrogen and other sustainable fuels more affordable and accessible. Hydrogen has enormous potential to replace fossil fuels and decarbonise hard-to-abate industries such as steelmaking, but producing clean hydrogen remains expensive, partly because current technologies rely on costly materials. Reducing these…
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