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Urinary Ferritin as a Non-Invasive Means of Assessing Iron Status in Young Children

Exploring whether urinary ferritin can be used as an alternative biomarker for measuring iron status in young children over blood draws.

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HBF Funded Sub-Project Runner Up In Ramsay Research Week Competition

ORIGINS sub-project, Flourishing in Fatherhood, has placed runner up in Ramsay Health Care's research-month competition!

The Heavy Metal Tooth Fairy Project

This Australian-first study will simultaneously identify childhood exposure to heavy metals in regional and remote communities and provide these communities with training in drinking water quality, STEM and dental hygiene.

ORIGINS Vision Study

This study is aiming to investigate how sun exposure and time outside impacts the health of your child’s eye and eye growth, over a period of rapid growth in their lives.

Preschool ASD & Nutrition

Nutrition in preschool children with autistic behaviours.

Resources

Access world-leading evidence from Australia’s largest longitudinal birth cohort study, uncovering how early environments influence the development of chronic disease across a generation.

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Maternal and Child Mental Health and Wellbeing

Examining the pathways of perinatal maternal mental health that influence child mental health outcomes.

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Hyperactive Nickase Activity Improves Adenine Base Editing

Base editing technologies enable programmable single-nucleotide changes in target DNA without double-stranded DNA breaks. Adenine base editors (ABEs) allow precise conversion of adenine to guanine. However, limited availability of optimized deaminases as well as their variable efficiencies across different target sequences can limit the ability of ABEs to achieve effective adenine editing.

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The implementation of exercise therapy within hospital-based mental healthcare: Delphi study

The physical health comorbidities and premature mortality experienced by people with mental illness has led to an increase in exercise services embedded as part of standard care in hospital-based mental health services. Despite the increase in access to exercise services for people experiencing mental illness, there is currently a lack of guidelines on the assessment and triage of patients into exercise therapy.

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Exercise and Gender Services for Young People

Trans and gender diverse young people are at very high risk for poor mental health, self-harming, and suicide attempts.