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Four aspiring scientists, Toby De Silva, Mannat Kaur, Owen Hulme and Taisia Afanasyeva, graduated from Bioprotection Aotearoa’s Te Māhuri Scholarship programme for secondary students after eight days immersed in science…

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr John Ramana (University of Canterbury) wanted to paint a picture of what healthy kānuka looked like, but his team got a lot more than they bargained for.   In their latest research, John and…

Did you know that the modern, popular weight loss drug owes its existence to a lizard? That’s right, the glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) antagonist known also as  Ozempic or Wegovy was…

Kara Pendavingh has just started her fourth year of her PhD at Massey University in Palmerston North. Looking back, the path has had plenty of obstacles and challenges that can…

Three Bioprotection Aotearoa Masters students graduated recently and have joined the work force. Here’s what Pearl Ruston has to say about what she accomplished during her Masters and what she’s…

Three Bioprotection Aotearoa Masters students graduated recently and have joined the work force. Here’s what Julia Palmer has to say about what she accomplished during her Masters and what she’s…

Three Bioprotection Aotearoa Masters students graduated recently and have joined the work force. Here’s what Tere Porter-Rawiri has to say about what she accomplished during her Masters and what she’s…

In early December, we will be saying goodbye to Alexa Byers, long-time member of Bioprotection Aotearoa and its predecessor, the Bio Protection Research Centre (BPRC). We caught up with Alexa…

Five researchers from across the Bioprotection Aotearoa network have been awarded Marsden Fund grants in the latest funding round, collectively securing more than $3.4 million to advance research that strengthens…

  It starts with something simple: an apple core, casually tossed from a moving car window. The apple core lands in the roadside gravel, where it is warmed by the…