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New treatment for boosting immune tolerance offers hope for early pregnancy loss
A new study from the Robinson Research Institute, ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide, is offering new hope for people who have experienced early pregnancy loss.
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Event summary: 2024 Lloyd Cox Memorial Lecture
Professor Helena Teede AM, a globally renowned clinician-academic in women’s health and expert in health translation, delivered the annual Lloyd Cox Memorial Lecture, focusing on the theme ‘Research with Impact: Translating Women's Health Research into Practice and Policy’.
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Lighting the way with accurate and safe 3D embryo imaging
The inability to accurately predict embryo viability prior to implantation is a key contributor in the low success rate of clinical in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), but a team of experts is highlighting a safe way to study embryos using 3D optical imaging.
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Skin may hold key to neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosis
A genetic diagnostic method using a small sample of skin from the upper arm could identify rare neurodevelopmental disorders in a non-invasive way, according to researchers at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide.
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Confirmed link between maternal asthma and child allergies
For the first time, researchers from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide’s Robinson Research Institute, ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog and ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Queensland have confirmed maternal asthma increases risks of child allergies.
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New guidance set to change the way we diagnose type 1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) diagnosis could soon be transformed with newly released guidance developed with the input of an expert from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide’s Robinson Research Institute, outlining how to detect and monitor early-stage T1D, before the point of symptom onset.
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Specialist scanning needed to help endo patients
A review of existing research shows there is a growing benefit to using specialist scanning to diagnose endometriosis.
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Case study: Shining light on embryo health
Pregnancies assisted by in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) have doubled between 2002-2017, however, the IVF success rate has remained stagnant – something Associate Professor Kylie Dunning, leader of Robinson Research Institute’s Reproductive Success group, would like to change.
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Genetics, not lack of oxygen, causes cerebral palsy in quarter of cases
The world’s largest study of cerebral palsy (CP) genetics has discovered genetic defects are most likely responsible for more than a quarter of cases in Chinese children, rather than a lack of oxygen at birth as previously thought.
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Case study: A better life with cystic fibrosis, one breath at a time
Have you ever held your breath for longer than what feels comfortable? Could you feel the overwhelming urge to breathe? This is what people living with cystic fibrosis can feel. As the disease progresses, the feeling gets worse, breath by breath.
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