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The Winners Guide To The Nobel Prize
27 Mar 2010
The film accompanies Australian scientists Barry Marshall and Robin Warren to Stockholm to collect the 2005 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. The nature and significance of their discovery that stomach ulcers are caused by helicobacter pylori is discussed as well.
National Curriculum Year 9
Dr Alex Veldman
15 Apr 2010
The program profiles the working life of Dr Alex Veldman who is based at Monash Hospital in Melbourne as a neonatologist for 60% of his time and as a scientist for 40% of his time. The program shows how he worked collaboratively and applied new scientific knowledge to overcome significant...
National Curriculum Year 9
School Of Hard Knocks
15 Apr 2010
A research team of neurologists from Boston University has been investigating the long term effects of multiple concussions and sub-concussive injuries sustained during contact sport. Their findings are changing the rules of contact sports.
National Curriculum Year 9
Molecular Bypass
22 Apr 2010
Researchers in Perth, WA, have developed a new medicine that corrects genetic mistakes, exon skipping treatment. This is offering hope for people with serious illness. The technique works like a genetic patch which fills in for defective genes when a cell divides. The program focuses on Duchenne...
National Curriculum Year 10
Male Pill
22 Apr 2010
Prince Henry's Institute in Melbourne has been involved in a study to find a convenient, effective and reversible means of contraception for men. The program investigates the study and the barriers that will need to be overcome in order to make such a method freely available to men. The...
National Curriculum Year 9
Dengue Mozzie
03 Sep 2009
The program investigates the research project of a team of Queensland scientists who have come up with a new way of stopping the spread of Dengue fever in Australia and other countries. The program provides background information about the cause of Dengue fever, its symptoms and effects and some...
National Curriculum Year 9
Charcot-Marie-Tooth [Cmt] Disease
28 May 2010
Dr Maryanne Demasi reports on a research project at the Children's Hospital where a new treatment for a genetic neurological disorder, CMT disease, is being trialed. This project has developed from a research finding in France where mice with the disease responded to treatment with ascorbic acid...
National Curriculum Year 9
Clever Cancer
27 May 2010
Dr Mary Demasi reports on a research project at the Garvan Institute in Sydney where scientists are studying a relatively new area called "epigenetics". This work with prostrate cancer shows that it's genes being turned on and off, not genetic change that controls the growth of some...
National Curriculum Year 10
Catalyst: Science In Profile: Professor Thomas Borody
01 Apr 2010
The program describes the working life of Professor Thomas Borody, the gastroenterologist responsible for developing the first antibiotic treatment for ulcers. Stress and lifestyle were once thought to be the primary cause of stomach and duodenal ulcers. But, in 2005 Australians Robin Warren and...
National Curriculum Year 9
Blackburn's Nose Leads To Nobel Prize
29 Oct 2009
The story describes the science work that earned Australian-born Dr Elizabeth Blackburn [and two other colleagues] the 2009 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
National Curriculum Year 10
