ANSTO's research capabilities, led by the OPAL nuclear research reactor and associated instruments provide access to users investigating areas as diverse as materials, life sciences, climate change and mining/engineering.
About ANSTO LifeSciences
Many things may affect a person's health including the quality and availability of food and water, community health issues, environmental and physiological challenges such as ionising radiation, and the prevention and treatment of disease.
ANSTO LifeSciences addresses some of these large issues, working at the molecular level using the unique capabilities of nuclear technologies to probe the fundamental properties of living matter. Through collaborations and partnerships, ANSTO LifeSciences addresses interdisciplinary research questions in health, medicine, biology, agriculture, food and nutrition.
Using our expertise, capabilities and resources, ANSTO LifeSciences works to reveal biological pathways and to improve prevention, diagnosis, and therapy strategies for disease.
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