Vic family in southern NSW has new strain

A COVID-positive Victorian family which travelled to parts of southern NSW has a different coronavirus variant to other people associated with the current Greater Melbourne outbreak, Victorian authorities say. NSW on Thursday extended by a week the stay-at-home order for people who have arrived from Victoria after the southern state lengthened its lockdown. Anyone in… Read More »

Machine learning platform mines nature for new drugs

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Computational Biology Department in the School of Computer Science have developed a new process that could reinvigorate the search for natural product drugs to treat cancers, viral infections and other ailments. The machine learning algorithms developed by the Metabolomics and Metagenomics Lab match the signals of a microbe’s metabolites with… Read More »