Regional Development Australia ACT announces Canberra’s first urban vertical farm
The ACT’s first vertical farm installation has landed at Canberra’s Ginninderry development, a 6-star Green Star Community west of Belconnen.
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ANPC scientists publish game-changing findings on COVID-19 effects
World-leading ANPC scientists have found metabolic evidence of multi-organ dysfunction in blood-plasma samples from COVID-19-infected WA patients. Now they’re running large-scale analyses and looking at potential long-term effects.
UNSW a global contender across the board
UNSW has rocketed upwards in this year’s ARWU global research rankings to #74, and now outranks all other Australian unis with its across-the-board research performance.
More fun with fungi: Fable Food Co turns mushrooms into new, nutrition-packed products
Keen to differentiate themselves in the plant-proteins space, three entrepreneurial Aussies – a farmer, a chef and a former fashion-business owner – turned to fungi as a nutrition-packed alt-meat ingredient. That was just the start.
Could farming wheat indoors alleviate food insecurity?
University of Florida research suggests wheat yields could be boosted exponentially if this staple grain was grown undercover, in vertical farm facilities. To make it economically viable, just add reliable renewable energy.
Full STEAM ahead: ABARES’ Science & Innovation Awards 2021
STEAM (science, technology, engineering, agriculture, maths) students and early-career researchers, put your innovation hats on: it’s that time of year again.
Bega Cheese turns to IoT to streamline supply chain and cut costs
Major Australian dairy processor Bega Cheese is developing a new IoT-based online service that optimises milk pick-up schedules and cuts transport and distribution costs.
COVID-19 disruption drives interest in vertical farming
As British farmers struggle to provide fresh food for the UK’s citizens, grappling with labour shortages and complex export supply chains, vertical farm facilities are attracting increasing interest.
Professor Jeremy Nicholson: an ‘inside’ view of 21st-century global healthcare challenges
World metabolomics expert Professor Jeremy Nicholson talks, pre-pandemic, with News-Medical.net about some of the world’s most pressing and costly healthcare challenges – and how to combat them from the inside out.
FoodTrack nutritional database: on track and online
Health researchers and consumers now have ready access to the extensive nutritional database developed by CSIRO and The Heart Foundation via a new, sophisticated online analytics platform developed by UK-based Nutritics.