Video

A collection of videos from our archives.

Dr Peter Waterhouse.

CSIRO Medals 2005 – Chairman’s Medal – RNA Interference team

Peter Waterhouse and colleagues (CSIRO Plant Industry). For leading research in one of the most high profile, commercially relevant areas of modern molecular biology, RNA interference (RNAi).

Dung Beatle

Dung Down Under (1972)

Selected species of dung beetles imported from Africa are being mass bred in Australia for release in cattle breeding areas. Early results indicate that they will prove an outstanding example of biological control.

Peter Hudson and colleague inspect a DNA autoradiogram.

Magic bullets (1996)

CSIRO scientists are working on an antibody to combat cancers and viruses.

Graphic of Malaria virus attacking red blood cells.

Malaria Vaccine (1998)

Between two and three million people are killed each year by malaria. A vaccine for this deadly disease has been developed and is now in its trial stage.

Skin Polarprobe unit for identifying harmful skin lesions.

Spot check (1997)

Software to help doctors correctly diagnose melanoma. Soaking up the sun and getting a tan, there's nothing like it. And […]