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  2. Thumbnail for Six tonnes of plastic removed from remote island's beaches

    Six tonnes of plastic removed from remote island's beaches

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/879-six-tonnes-of-plastic-removed-from-remote-islands-beaches
    3 Jul 2019: Dr Jennifer Lavers' research revealed in 2017 that the tiny uninhabited island was polluted with the highest density of plastic debris ever recorded. Part of the UK’s Pitcairn Islands territory, the island is so remote that it’s usually visited
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    Researchers to test potential of drug in fight against MND

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/922-researchers-to-test-potential-of-drug-in-fight-against-mnd
    15 Sep 2019: There could be new hope in the fight against motor neurone disease (MND). The potential of a drug to assist in protecting nerve cells from degeneration which occurs in motor neuron disease, will begin pre-clinical testing after Tasmanian researchers
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    Menzies welcomes $10 million funding boost for MS

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/854-menzies-welcomes-10-million-funding-boost-for-ms
    12 Apr 2019: The Menzies Institute Director, Professor Alison Venn, said the funding would make an enormous difference to its collaborative program which is working with the wider MS community, nationally and internationally, towards better prevention, treatment
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    Devilish cancer cell identified

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/901-devilish-cancer-cell-identified
    6 Aug 2019: Researchers have identified the cell of origin of Devil Facial Tumour 2 (DFT2), the second transmissible cancer that was first observed in Tasmanian devils from the Channel area in south-east Tasmania in 2014. The research was performed by
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    Nurses make their mark on the community

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/863-nurses-make-their-mark-on-the-community
    22 May 2019: Helping the community, lifelong learning, and a career that never gets boring: this is what nursing is like. Registered Nurses and lecturers in the University of Tasmania’s College of Health and Medicine, Grace Bennett-Daly (lecturer in Nursing,
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    Gene hunting to unlock the biology of multiple sclerosis

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/874-gene-hunting-to-unlock-the-biology-of-multiple-sclerosis
    14 Jun 2019: Your mother’s eyes, your father’s nose…we all know that genetics play a big part in what we look like and who we are. But it’s also genes that can influence the diseases and conditions we might experience in our lives, including multiple
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    Greening our cities to help ageing Australians beat the heat

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/831-greening-our-cities-to-help-ageing-australians-beat-the-heat
    5 Mar 2019: Heatwaves have killed more Australians than road accidents, fires, floods and all other natural disasters combined. Although recent research shows extreme cold is a worry in some parts of Australia, our hottest summer on record points to more
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    Why you should never stop stargazing

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/915-why-you-should-never-stop-stargazing
    3 Sep 2019: From a little boy staring in wonder at the night sky to the head of Physics at the University, Dr Andrew Cole has never lost his curiosity about the mysteries held in space. “I was inspired by the night sky and trying to understand why things
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    Tails you lose for lizards

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/888-tails-you-lose-for-lizards
    21 Jul 2019: The natural ability of lizards to drop and then regrow their tails is a neat evolutionary trick that allows them to avoid predators and remain alive. But new research from the University of Tasmania - published recently in Biology Letters - reveals
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    Possums bounce back on Maria Island

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/927-possums-bounce-back-on-maria-island
    23 Sep 2019: The recent introduction of healthy Tasmanian Devils to Maria Island was initially bad news for the local possum population, a species blissfully ignorant of the predator’s existence. But the ability of the prey species to rapidly modify its

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