Since the early 1990s, CSIRO Human Nutrition has performed many clinical trials on how nutrition and exercise affects heart health. CSIRO has investigated dietary patterns, single foods, food supplements and also extracts.
CSIRO scientists have developed a new system to screen for compounds that can inhibit one of the processes that takes place during the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
The CSIRO Food Futures Flagship has developed an automated instrument for accurately predicting glycemic index (GI) and resistant starch (RS) in food products.
Find out about the cutting edge of cancer prevention and sports drug testing in these free lectures for high school science teachers and senior science students in New South Wales.
Information obtained during clinical treatment can be valuable for clinical and medical research, but accessing and querying it is complicated by the different ways it is collected and stored. CSIRO is creating software tools to solve these problems.
Healthcare researchers are flooded with data. They need help to retrieve, organise and analyse it. CSIRO information and communication technologies (ICT) scientists are providing new tools for the task.
Our researchers are testing injury prevention limb covers to prevent or reduce skin tears and other injuries. We are also developing advanced textiles with integrated sensing and response technologies to promote healing of burns, scars and ulcers.
The CSIRO fermentation group has particular expertise in mammalian cell fermentation and integrated delivery capabilities from molecular and cell biology to protein chemistry and structural biology.
In this video extract from the television program Catalyst, CSIRO's Dr Michael Fenech says that damage to the genome is a fundamental disease that can be diagnosed and treated. (8:00)
Dr Michael Fenech says genetic damage can occur after exposure to radiation, chemicals, or even naturally with age. Damaged genes could lead to the development of cancer and other degenerative diseases and he may have found a way to reduce this risk.
Dr Paul Jackway’s research in image analysis and automated microscopy is finding new ways to rapidly analyse cells and other biological samples with minimal human intervention.
