Breadcrumbs List.
Future of health and wellbeing
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Taking the journey to the realm of light
16 April 2024
Mātātaki |The Challenge: Psychologist Jade Le Grice brings a mātauranga Māori lens to complex issues, from attitudes to abortion to ending sexual violence.
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A bright spark fixing the electrics behind gut misery
30 January 2024
One student's success in the search for a link between unexplained gut misery and the electrical pulses in our stomach.
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Māori-centred models for kaumātua care
20 December 2023
VIDEO: Dr Joanna Hikaka takes a kaupapa Māori approach to health services and gerontology.
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Living library of breast cancer cells
19 December 2023
VIDEO: Dr Emma Nolan is building an innovative research platform, a library of breast cancer tumour cells, to build models to test how cancer grows and behaves.
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Exploring the menstrual cycle link to epilepsy
19 December 2023
VIDEO: Dr Rachael Sumner's research focuses on the link of the menstrual cycle to the 40 percent of women with epilepsy. She received an 2023 early career research award.
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Gold standard for better birth care
18 December 2023
VIDEO:Professor Caroline Crowther was awarded the University 2023 Research Excellence medal for her work targeting the major causes of maternal and perinatal death and illness.
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The search for the lost chimpanzees of Tenerife
30 November 2023
Associate Professor Javier Virués-Ortega has turned detective to solve the case of long-forgotten chimpanzees who helped redefine how we view animal and human intelligence.
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Better nutrition to support new Pacific mums
14 November 2023
Dr Karaponi Okesene-Gafa received an award for best thesis at the 2023 Celebrating Research Excellence Awards.
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Peter Hunter: pioneering the digital twin
1 November 2023
The founding director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute Professor Peter Hunter is stepping down. But the work to create a digital twin continues.
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The story behind New Zealand's mRNA platform
3 October 2023
The University is the co-lead of a project of national significance to build a mRNA plaform to spark the next revolution in medical science and healthcare.
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Debunking the misleading myths about gout
17 July 2023
Gout is not an affliction of wealthy men overdoing food and alcohol. It more commonly affects Māori and Pacific men from a surprisingly young age.
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Can an AI robot help with loneliness?
6 July 2023
Professor Elisabeth Broadbent talks about how AI integrated with companion robots might help with an epidemic of loneliness.