When the CEO of the Australian Meat Industry Council is urging politicians to keep calm and stick to the science, we should all listenSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityYou may have missed the quiet war waged by farmer groups to end foot in mouth disease.Yes, I mean foot in mouth disease. Continue...

Findings point to improvements in organ transplants and raise questions over nature of deathOnce the heart stops pumping blood, death quickly follows. Or does it?Scientists have developed a way to restore function in pig organs an hour after their hearts have stopped beating, raising fresh questions about the nature of death and pointing to ways to improve organ transplantation rates. Continue...

Researchers use stem cells from mice to form embryo-like structures with intestinal tract, beginnings of a brain, and a beating heartResearchers have created the world’s first “synthetic embryos” in a groundbreaking feat that bypassed the need for sperm, eggs and fertilisation.Scientists at the Weizmann Institute in Israel found that stem cells from mice could be made to self-assemble into...

Astrophysicist expects more debris to be found in area ‘over the years’ from SpaceX capsule from rocket launched in 2020Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastThe Australian Space Agency has confirmed the space debris found in the Snowy Mountains in southern New South Wales belongs to a craft built by Elon...

CAB-LA injections offer stigma-free protection for those at risk – particularly women in Africa. A deal with pharmaceutical companies is crucialSomeone was blowing a whistle. A crowd with placards surged into the conference room, chanting “PrEP costs pennies, ViiV’s greed kills”. Not an obvious slogan, but everyone in the room knew what it meant.The protesters took over the stage,...

‘Substantial chance’ married or university-educated men outlive women without spouse or high school diplomaA study has called into question the long-held belief that women outlive men, especially men who are married or have a university degree.The analysis spanning two centuries across all continents concluded that although men have a lower life expectancy than the opposite sex, they have a...

Medicine is pragmatic. It has often established that a treatment works well before it has understood how The chemical imbalance theory of depression is well and truly dead. A paper by Joanna Moncrieff and colleagues, longtime critics of the effectiveness of antidepressants, has caused a splash. The paper provides a summary of other summaries that confirm there is no evidence to support the idea...