Topics: Ageing

Ageing represents one of the greatest medical, social and economic challenges – in Australia and globally.

About the talk: The human genome contains many types of repetitive material including short tandem repeats. Expansions of short tandem repeats can cause rare diseases including Friedreich’s ataxia and Huntington’s disease but are also responsible for GWAS hits such as the C9orf72 repeat expansion in motor neuron disease. In recent years several methods have been developed ...

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a scientist?

As we age our cells also age. They lose their normal functions and become resistant to cell death.

The Centenary Institute has hosted its inaugural Healthy Ageing Colloquium with invited speakers discussing their research specialities and contributions to combatting diseases in an ageing population.