Scientia

Professor Neil Coffee – Professor Vincent Versace | Mapping Health Access: Using Address-Level Intelligence for Smarter Services Accessing healthcare is a serious challenge for people living in rural and remote Australia. Large distances, sparse populations, and limited services can prevent residents from receiving care when they need it.

Sustainable decision-making requires balancing the costs borne by today’s society with those that will fall on future generations. Climate change is intensifying extreme weather, making floods more severe because a warmer atmosphere can hold and deliver a larger volume of water as precipitation.

Jean Lycke | Addressing Unmet Medical Needs in Mucosal Disease: A Close-to-Market Innovation Approach Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis (RAS) is an oral condition characterized by one or several painful mucosal ulcers. RAS affects a large proportion of the population and has a point prevalence of approximately 2–3%, daily. The etiology remains unknown, and there is currently no curative treatment. Most patients experience recurring episodes over time, with each episode typically lasting up to a week.

Jean Lycke | Addressing Unmet Medical Needs in Mucosal Disease: A Close-to-Market Innovation Approach Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis (RAS) is an oral condition characterized by one or several painful mucosal ulcers. RAS affects a large proportion of the population and has a point prevalence of approximately 2–3%, daily. The etiology remains unknown, and there is currently no curative treatment. Most patients experience recurring episodes over time, with each episode typically lasting up to a week.

Ms. Aikaterini Dritsoula | Looking Beyond Snoring: How Hidden Airway Problems Shape Children’s Sleep For many parents, a child’s snoring may seem harmless, even endearing. Yet in some cases, it signals something more serious. Obstructive sleep apnoea is a condition in which a child’s breathing is repeatedly disrupted during sleep. These interruptions can affect growth, behaviour, and learning.

Professor Michael Yarus | How RNA Started the Conversation That Built Life The genetic code stores the instructions for building proteins, yet how it first arose remains unclear. It likely did not appear fully formed, but instead emerged step by step from simple chemical interactions. In this study, a team led by Professor Michael Yarus at the University of Colorado Boulder shows how early ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules could bind specific amino acids, creating the first coding relationships.

Prof Candis M. Morello – Prof Jan D. Hirsch | Recent innovations in pharmacy education A pioneering research team from the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, United States, has been instrumental in developing innovative techniques for teaching pharmacy students. The Next Generation of Pharmacist Educators (NextGen-RxEd) programme is a new method of training the next generation of pharmacist educators and academics.

Turbulence remains one of the most enigmatic and poorly understood phenomena in physics, despite being ubiquitous in nature and everyday life—from the experience of flying through turbulent air, to driving at high speed, to observing water swirling in a river. The challenge of understanding turbulence has captivated some of history’s greatest minds.

Prof Candis M. Morello – Prof Jan D. Hirsch | Recent innovations in pharmacy education A pioneering research team from the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, United States, has been instrumental in developing innovative techniques for teaching pharmacy students. The Next Generation of Pharmacist Educators (NextGen-RxEd) programme is a new method of training the next generation of pharmacist educators and academics.

Identifying Nutritional Risk in Early Childhood: Insights from NutriSTEP® Early childhood is a critical period for growth and development, yet many young children face nutritionrelated risks that can go unnoticed. Professor Janis Randall Simpson and colleagues have developed NutriSTEP®, validated and reliable screening tools that help identify potential nutritional concerns in toddlers and preschoolers.