How collaboration, clarity of scope and flexibility helps find to find balance between quality research and participant welfare
I started my PhD in February 2020, two weeks after the first case of Covid-19 was diagnosed in Australia. One month later, Queensland, where I am based, was in lockdown, and we spent much of the next two years under pandemic restrictions. These were scheduled to lift in December 2021,...
As ‘super excited’ Rudiger waits to don Madrid shirt, Chelsea are fast-tracking signing of Frenchman Jules Kounde
German international defender Antonio Rudiger is jet-set to don Real Madrid colours after completing a transfer from Chelsea, who are said to be fast-tracking their pursuit of long term target Jules Kounde as his replacement. As soon as he put pen to paper, Rudiger, who spent six years at Stamford...
Molecular messengers sent out by brain’s immune cells during infections can initiate ‘sickness behaviours’
In 2021, Jonathan Kipnis, a neuroimmunologist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, and his colleagues reported that there is a local source of immune cells in the brain: the bone marrow of the skull. When they explored how the bone marrow mobilises these cells, Kipnis and his colleagues demonstrated...
