A healthy future? Let’s put medical science under the microscope

Peter C. Doherty, Fiona Stanley & Michael Good
The past is prologue, or so we should hope for biomedical research. Australia has a proud history with four Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine given for work done here ...
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A tale of swarms, cannibals, ageing and human obesity

Stephen J. Simpson
At first sight these seem like very strange bedfellows. In this chapter, I will explain how seeking to understand swarming in locusts has led to new discoveries on the dietary ...
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Agriculture in Australia: Growing more than our farming future

Peter Langridge, Michael D’Occhio & Dana Cordell
Food and agriculture are fundamental to human survival and it was the birth of agriculture and farming that laid down the basis for human civilisation. Since the first crops were ...
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AI for better or for worse, or AI at all?

Kobi Leins
When I was a little girl, I was taught a song about a ball of white string, in which the white string could fix everything — tie a bow on ...
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AI for sustainability: A changing landscape

Ehsan Nabavi, Katherine A. Daniell, Elizabeth T. Williams and Caitlin M. Bentley
Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting society in varied ways as researchers and practitioners are using it to gain new insights into different problems and to open up new business opportunities ...
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Artificial intelligence and government

Emma Martinho-Truswell and Sabrina Martin
Artificial intelligence offers a daunting challenge for government: a potent mix of high expectations, big budgets, a competitive international “AI arms race”, and elevated public fears. Some governments, such as ...
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Brian Anderson, David Glance & Toby Walsh

Australia’s got ICT talent — how do we make the most of it?

It is finally dawning on private and public sectors that information and communications technology (ICT) is an enabling technology. ICT is relevant to companies — ...
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Laura Beaton

The lottery of genetics

It’s Saturday morning, which means pancakes. After a long drive out to the quiet suburbs of regional Victoria, I arrive too late for the pancakes ...
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Grant Blashki & Jon Emery

Genomics in general practice

In recent decades, there has been an extraordinary technological revolution underway in which the very building blocks of life, our genetic codes, are increasingly well ...
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Grant Blashki & Simon Lock

Artificial intelligence and mental health

When we began to reflect on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) for mental health care, immediately there were a whole range of concerns that ...
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Edward Byrne

Scientific Leadership in the Modern World

One of the basic human drives is to find out more about ourselves and the world in which we live. This desire for knowledge goes ...
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Khoa Cao and Luke Oakden-Rayner

Artificial intelligence in healthcare

It may surprise you, but the first dreams of artificial intelligence did not arise in the basements of an MIT engineering lab, or the cosy ...
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