HCA-Vision: software for cytomics

Our HCA-Vision tool helps researchers find more effective, safer pharmaceuticals and better understand the mechanisms of disease. HCA-Vision is an automated image analysis software package that rapidly and reproducibly measures functional features of neuronal cells in images.

Quantitative Imaging: tools for extracting high quality data from images

CSIRO is developing computer vision tools that, like the human eye, can recognise and discriminate between objects but are also able to make detailed, accurate measurements.

Prof Mark Morrison: leading metagenomics research

Prof Mark Morrison, a microbiologist, is one of the leaders of CSIRO's research efforts to improve gut function and health.

Dr David Topping: bowel health advocate

Dr David Topping’s current research interest is the potential benefits of processed foods, such as dietary carbohydrates (fibre, resistant starch and oligosaccharides), probiotics and dietary fats, for gut health.

Associate Professor Grant Brinkworth: improving health with diet and exercise

Associate Professor Grant Brinkworth is a nutrition and exercise physiologist who develops and substantiates diet and lifestyle programs to improve weight management, health and wellbeing in the community.

Prof Manny Noakes: champion of health and wellbeing

Professor Manny Noakes is a key member of CSIRO's research team looking at diet, nutrition and health.She is the leader of the research team that developed the Total Wellbeing Diet, a scientifically proven approach to wellbeing and weight loss. Meet one of the key research scientists behind the development of the Total Wellbeing Diet.

Canberra: Black Mountain, ACT (Black Mountain laboratories)

CSIRO’s Black Mountain laboratories are the central research facilities of CSIRO Plant Industry, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences and CSIRO Land and Water.

Dr Lance Macaulay: leading neurodegenerative diseases research

Focusing on brain health, age onset disease and preventing dementia.

Advance in bowel cancer test research

Australian researchers have developed gene expression biomarkers which can accurately discriminate pre-cancerous and cancerous colorectal growths from non-cancerous controls.

Uncovering early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease

A major Australian study has provided new insights into the loss of structure in regions of the brain and its potential association with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Putting Alzheimer’s on early notice

Australian scientists have presented key findings at an international Alzheimer’s disease conference this week. Their major focus is on early detection and discovering why the disease progresses.

Alzheimer’s protein puts top brains to the test

CSIRO scientists and collaborators have made major inroads in cracking a structure of the protein thought to cause Alzheimer’s disease.

Dietary fibre research taking a new turn (Podcast 30 Sep 2007)

Senior CSIRO nutritionist, Dr David Topping explains how the type of fibre we eat can improve our health. (5:36)

When forgetfulness becomes a disease (Podcast 19 Jan 2010)

With life expectancies increasing around the world, populations are ageing and neurodegenerative diseases have become a global issue. (5:22)

Bodyworks Junior student workshop (Northern Territory)

We’ve all got a body, but how does it work? Discover and explore the human body in a Bodyworks Junior session for students from Transition to Year 2, run by CSIRO in the Northern Territory.

Bodyworks Senior

We’ve all got a body, but how does it work? Discover and explore the human body in the Bodyworks Senior workshop for students in Years 3 - 6 run by CSIRO in the Northern Territory.

Sydney: North Ryde, NSW (CSIRO North Ryde)

CSIRO's North Ryde site is in the heart of Sydney's hi-tech hub and near Macquarie University. More than 500 staff members work in mining, food, manufacturing, sustainability, health, petroleum and more.

Ms Leanne Bischof: automating discovery in the biological sciences

Ms Leane Bischof develops solutions to extract quantitative information from digital images, with the aim of increasing efficiency in the biological sciences.

Food Bioactives

Bioactive molecules are components of food that possess biological activity in addition to their nutritional value and can play roles in human growth, development and disease prevention.

Healthier milk enriched with calcium and minerals

Researchers from CSIRO have developed extra-high calcium milk that could have a major impact on preventing bone diseases such as osteoporosis.

Nutrition, lifestyle and DNA

CSIRO is researching foods, diets, our lifestyles and DNA to keep us healthier and fitter for longer. A healthy diet and lifestyle can help avoid the major causes of illness and premature death.

The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet

CSIRO's Total Wellbeing Diet has now been produced as a book - published by Penguin - chock full of delectable recipes for a weight loss program that is successful and provides the nutrients required for health and vitality.

ASPREE Healthy Ageing Biobank information sheet

Read the information sheet about the ASPREE (ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly) Healthy Ageing Biobank. (2 pages)

CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet shopping list: Book 1

This six-page list is to be used by those trying to reach their goal weight and to maintain weight loss using the Total Wellbeing Diet.

The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet Book 2: shopping lists weeks 1-6

This 13-page attachment shows the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet Book 2 menus and shopping lists for weeks 1-6 with quantities for four people.