Wheat bacteria may ward off plant disease
A Flinders University researcher is digging deep to discover how certain bacterial strains found in wheat can stimulate a plant’s natural defence fighting mechanisms.
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Shedding new light on life with poor sight
Flinders University researchers are trying to determine exactly how eye disease affects quality of life in a bid to target and improve treatments.
Tackling type 1 diabetes
A curative treatment for type 1 diabetes will come under the microscope as part of a new study by researchers from Flinders University.
Tracing arsenic threat to groundwater
Ilka Wallis, a PhD candidate in Flinders University’s School of the Environment, is investigating how arsenic may leach into underground water.
Bid to fix a hole in our justice system
A Flinders law academic says limitations that restrict the right to fair trial potentially leave unfairly convicted people unable to contest miscarriages of justice.
Support for Indigenous drug and alcohol workers
Indigenous alcohol and drug workers are enduring lower pay, poorer job security and higher family pressures than their non-Indigenous counterparts while working in extremely challenging environments, according to researchers based at Flinders.
Palaeontology Week unearths new fossil hunters
Some of the State’s foremost fossil experts will be pushed to their limits by some very knowledgeable kids during the SA Museum’s Palaeontology Week.
New blood to improve life of artificial joints
Understanding why some joint implants fail and others are successful is the key research focus of Flinders new Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mark Taylor.
Understanding the double-edge sword of steroids
Flinders researchers are on a mission to find out how long-term steroid treatment for arthritis and pituitary tumours affect the body’s metabolic and cardiovascular mechanisms.