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30 April 2020

A new project led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) that aims to improve our...

30 April 2020

An international study led by Melbourne researchers has discovered nine new genes linked to the most severe...

21 April 2020

It is often tricky to work out how much is too much screen time for kids. Not all screen time is the same...

17 April 2020

A better framework for the reanalysis of genetic data, a game-changing process which could improve...

15 April 2020

Pregnancy and having a baby should be a time of great joy and togetherness for families. But if you are...

15 April 2020

Dear friends, I wanted to thank everyone in the MCRI community for your thoughtful messages of support...

10 April 2020

The newly released Australian modelling combined with international data supports the Victorian...

09 April 2020

New research has uncovered the risk factors for Fijians carrying a pneumonia-causing bacteria. The...

04 April 2020

Deaths of children and adolescents in China due to infectious diseases were becoming rare prior to the...

02 April 2020

The Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) has started vaccinating healthcare workers as part of a...

27 March 2020

Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia,...

25 March 2020

An Australian study has unearthed a vital clue in predicting the likelihood of a baby having a food allergy...

24 March 2020

Understanding human behaviours – panic is a normal response to emergency A common question we asked...

20 March 2020

A Melbourne-led study has uncovered a new neurodegenerative disorder in which children experience...

20 March 2020

School children who experience racial discrimination show higher risk markers for later cardiometabolic...

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Project receives significant grant to breathe new life into childhood lung disease research

New genes linked to severe childhood speech disorder

How much is too much screen time?

Better data reanalysis model needed to improve rare disease diagnostic rates

COVID-19 and pregnancy

A message from MCRI's Director, Prof Kathryn North AC

Australian COVID-19 modelling and international data reassuring for parents, teachers, according to experts

Risk factors for carrying pneumonia-causing bacteria revealed

Rapid infectious disease shifts in Chinese children and adolescents prior to covid-19

BCG vaccine trial to protect Australian healthcare workers starts, enabled by major philanthropic backing

MCRI to trial preventative vaccine for COVID-19 healthcare workers

Mother’s gut bacteria may hold key to predicting childhood food allergies

Making sense of what is happening: COVID-19

New neurodegenerative disorder discovery

Children’s experiences of racial discrimination linked to risk markers of long-term chronic disease