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Charles Perkins Centre Academic Director Stephen Simpson recently explained to ABC Radio National how the connections between the appetites of humans and locusts have revealed new insights into human obesity.

Symposium on improving community health
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Watch recordings of the speakers and panel discussion from a 2011 symposium on improving community health.

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2012 events

  • Towards therapeutic engineering of the gut microbiota – they are what you eat (30 May)
  • Fetal growth, omega-3, and cardiovascular disease (17 May)
  • Molecular Imaging Symposium (1 May)

2012 news releases

  • Novel partnership could transform breast cancer diagnosis (6 March)
  • World-renowned scientist to head multidisciplinary centre tackling 'lifestyle diseases' (24 February)
  • Omega-3 linked with reduced risk for smallest babies (21 February)
  • iPads show the way forward for medical imaging (21 February)
  • Human 'shock absorbers' discovered (14 February)
  • University of Sydney launches smoke-free campus (30 January)
  • Making healthy choices easy for shoppers (19 January)

2011 news releases

  • Staff, students and community turn out to learn cooking basics (21 October)
  • Researchers understand why smokers' lungs don't get better (28 July)
  • Cholesterol drug may help diabetes sugar levels (27 July)
  • Microsoft grant boosts stroke, cardio disease detection devices (19 July)
  • Picasso masterpiece raises A$20.6 million to fund Sydney research (22 June)
  • Smoking during pregnancy increases children's heart disease risk factors (22 June)
  • Healthy planet, healthy people (29 April)
  • Sale of donated Picasso to benefit University of Sydney science (27 April)
  • Kids' screen time a predictor of future health problems (20 April)

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