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QBI Founding Director, Professor Perry Bartlett has been awarded the prestigious Distinguished Achievement Award by the Australian Neuroscience Society (ANS).

Published in Nature today, Japanese and US scientists have reported a new way to make stem cells. This new method relies on the use of acid to turn white blood cells and other body cells into pluripotent stem cells and represents a possible simpler and cheaper way to obtain stem cells.

Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research have discovered that breast stem cells and their ‘daughters’ have a much longer lifespan than previously thought. The findings have important implications for identifying the cells of origin of breast cancers and were published in the prestigious Nature journal.