Biology

Understanding the fundamentals of the natural systems around us is the key motivation for the biology research taking place at NCI. Researchers are conducting exciting, forward looking investigations into plant biology and agricultural methods, ecological systems, and the fundamentals of molecular biology.

A marine cone snail viewed up close underwater. It has a pointed oval shape and is covered in white and red triangular markings on the shell.

09 Mar 2021

Chronic pain relief from the unlikeliest of places

Solutions to the problems we face can come from the strangest of places. The natural world has created an incredible array of molecules and proteins, some of which we can use to our advantage to

A small and round Bennett's Wallaby standing in a grassy field under a diagonal branch.

Research Collaborations

21 Oct 2020

Conservation Genomics Collaboration Helps Research Community

Biology

NCI’s strategic collaboration between and across conservation genomics research groups has enabled improved access to supercomputing, and enhanced development efforts to improve software and data

Research Highlights

31 Aug 2020

Reprocessing a highly valuable genomic dataset

Biology

Health

Genetic medicine in coming years will benefit from the technical innovations that NCI and the Gadi supercomputer are now enabling. The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is refreshing its 4,000

ALCG letters in blue on transparent computer background.

Research Highlights

20 Apr 2020

Special Announcement: ALCG COVID-19 Special Call Recipients

Biology

Health

NCI Australia is supporting the Australian and international research community undertaking COVID-19 research through the provision of streamlined, prioritised and expedited access to computation and

Two close up models of pieces of treated pine with cutouts showing copper deposits in blue.

Research Highlights

31 Mar 2020

NCI Virtual Reality technology unveils structures you wood not believe

Biology

Technology

NCI’s Drishti VR technology, a custom-designed tool for visualising volumetric datasets in virtual reality, is now being used to teach students about the structures of different kinds of wood. Three

Rivers and lakes form a wetland wth green vegetation going off into the distance of Botswana's Okavango Delta.

Research Highlights

24 Jan 2020

Finding the homeland of modern humans

Biology

THE CHALLENGE: Where did modern humans first come from? Our development was determined by a combination of genetics, environment and climate, forces acting in concert over the millennia to lead us to

A theoretical model of a specific Calcium Phosphate cluster in water.

Research Highlights

29 Nov 2019

Discovering the exquisite details of mineral formation

Biology

Chemistry

THE CHALLENGE: We see so much of the world around us at the large scale, but never really think about the complexity taking place at the atomic level. So it is, for example, with bone formation. A

The hormone erythropoietin (red) bound to its receptor (grey). Binding of the hormone causes a rotation of the two receptors transmitting a signal through the membrane. The aim is to understand how the molecules at the receptor/membrane boundary (spheres) are coupled.

Case Studies

24 Jul 2019

Understanding the fundamentals of the natural systems around us is the key motivation for the biology research taking place at NCI. Researchers are conducting exciting, forward looking investigations

Two views of a fossilised weevil side by side, on the left the weevil trapped in amber and obscured by bubbles, on the right visualised using a CT scanner and Drishti technology.

Research Highlights

10 Jan 2019

Unique, extinct fossils under the microscope

Biology

One hundred million years or so ago in present-day Burma, a random assortment of insects, flowers, reptiles and even tiny dinosaurs became trapped in the oozing resin of trees in an ancient forest

Close up of a stalk of wheat showing the grains bulging out of the head. A field of wheat is blurry in the background.

Research Highlights

24 Aug 2018

Global climate data used for agriculture research to benefit the nation

Biology

Earth and Environmental Science

Global climate change data provides unique insights about our changing environment over long time-scales, and helps us plan for the future. The international climate change data set CMIP6 is a

Biology

Chronic pain relief from the unlikeliest of places

Conservation Genomics Collaboration Helps Research Community

Reprocessing a highly valuable genomic dataset

Special Announcement: ALCG COVID-19 Special Call Recipients

NCI Virtual Reality technology unveils structures you wood not believe

Finding the homeland of modern humans

Discovering the exquisite details of mineral formation

Biology

Unique, extinct fossils under the microscope

Global climate data used for agriculture research to benefit the nation

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