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The Covid time machine
12 January 2021
In the Infection and Immunity Laboratory at the University of Auckland, a team led by Nikki Moreland has built a Covid-19 time machine.
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Who should get to be a doctor?
28 October 2020
Professor Papaarangi Reid on why targeted admission schemes to medical schools are a matter of life and death.
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Rural home for cutting edge research centre
17 September 2020
Regional New Zealand is home to a leading medical imaging research centre tackling health inequities.
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The first 1,000 days of dinner
25 May 2020
Researchers have produced a snapshot of what our infants are eating. The research holds clues to how Aotearoa’s children have become the second most obese in the world and what we might do about it.
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Can you trust a robot?
21 April 2020
Robot caregivers can help maintain independence as we age, but the trick is getting humans to trust them.
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Psychedelics on trip back from fringe
21 April 2020
LSD and ketamine are illegal drugs. They also hold new hope for people with serious depression and addictions resistant to current therapy.
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Real life tricorder screens skin cancers
21 April 2020
More New Zealanders die from skin cancers each year than on our roads. A real 'tricorder' aims to cut that death toll.
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'Crazy' idea leads to brain disease breakthrough
21 April 2020
How a hunch led to a new way to grow human brain cells to investigate an array of challenging disorders.
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Faster recovery from cancer surgery
21 April 2020
A clever device invented here is reducing the recovery time for people who have had surgery for bowel cancer. This saves millions of dollars but more importantly patients are in much better shape to resume their lives.
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How do dogs think? Clever canines and comparative psychology
5 December 2017
Dr Alex Taylor from the School of Psychology is exploring how dogs think, in the recently established Clever Canine Lab.
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