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CHIRI research checked-in for a collaboration with Oxford in the UK

PhD student Tahlia Bastholm and her co-supervisor Dr Joshua Ramsay have received a handy funding boost from the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute to take their collaborative research abroad. CHIRI will provide a small grant to support Tahlia’s travel to the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom to collect additional data for their research, […]

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Study finds tiny ‘nano’ capsules effective in treating type two diabetes

Curtin University researchers have developed tiny capsules that are able to effectively target the liver and pancreas reducing the inflammatory effects of type two diabetes. The research, published in the Nature journal, Scientific Reports, explored whether the tiny capsules, developed using bio-nanotechnologies and filled with a combination of human-based bile acids and the lipid-lowering drug […]

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