John Elder
They come in good times: The irony of mouse plagues
At the beginning of autumn every year, in grain country, people living in country towns expect mice to move into their homes....
Could we be hatched, not born? Mice are being grown in mechanical ‘wombs’
Scientists have managed to grow the embryo of a mammal in a mechanical uterus outside of the womb for the first time....
Vaccine rollout on ‘training wheels’ and potentially compromised by greed
Any confusion about Australia’s vaccine rollout can be attributed to its infancy, our leading medical body says, as the process is still...
‘Existential threat to professional sport’: Brain disease could affect one in 10 footballers
Last month, a Victorian coroner found that AFL veteran Danny Frawley – who took his own life in 2019 – was suffering...
Coronavirus vaccine: Will Australia’s rollout be affected by Italy’s AstraZeneca grab?
Italy, backed by the EU, has blocked 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine being shipped to Australia – and there is no...
With friends like these: Why teen bullies target those closest to them
There’s been a tendency to regard child bullies as poor things: they angrily strike out because of psychological damage or an awful...
The search for life on Mars: What’s in it for Earthlings?
Every day the news is rich with death or, at the least, deadly downers. But this week, we dramatically touched down on...
Researchers settle some misconceptions about COVID, sex and fertility. Here’s what we know
Two delicate questions have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic and subjected to a lot of scrutiny: Can the SARS-CoV-2 virus infect semen...
Obesity drug trial: One third of participants lose 20 per cent of body weight
US researchers are trumpeting a new drug as a “game changer” in the management of obesity – and for once, a large,...
World first: AstraZeneca jab reduces COVID virus being passed from person to person
The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine – the jab most Australians will receive – appears to reduce transmission of the coronavirus, according to a...