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Healthy lunch ideas for kids during COVID-19All parents are familiar with the nightly battle to get the kids to eat their vegies, but did you know primary-school aged children get over one third of their energy intake from the food they consume during school hours

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Worried about your child getting coronavirus? Here’s what you need to knowComparatively few children have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). Here’s what we know so far about how children are affected.

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$12 million grant puts WA research team in the hot seat to help wipe out malaria foreverA world-leading research team built to tackle malaria has relocated from Oxford University to Western Australia to take advantage of the state’s growing big data talent pool.
In this The Kids Research Institute Australia subsite, our Rett syndrome research team manages a national and international database of Rett syndrome.
We investigated the factors that may affect the age at diagnosis for girls and woman with Rett syndrome.
We used multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification to examine the MECP2 gene sequences in 149 girls and 1 boy.
Novel findings in relation to genotype
Using information from the Australian Rett Syndrome study, we examined the frequency of a range of sleep issues and variation by agegroup or gene abnormalities.
We wanted to assess bone mineral content and bone mass density in girls and women in our Australian study, and whether specific factors had any influence.
Using information provided by the Rett study, we looked at relationships of early development, genetic characteristics and the development of scoliosis.