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Suppressing the immune system won't improve your chances of conceiving with IVF

  • Written by: Sarah Robertson, Professor and Director, Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide
imageThe frustration of failed IVF cycles leads many women to seek explanations and investigate alternative options.from shutterstock.com

It’s common for three or more rounds of IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) treatment to be unsuccessful, that is, to not to result in a pregnancy. The frustration leads many women to seek explanations and investigate...

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Grattan on Friday: As one businessman to another…Malcolm and Donald begin to talk

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

During the federal election campaign the University of Canberra’s focus group in the seat of Indi was asked who’d be the better prime minister to deal with a possible Trump presidency. Most thought Malcolm Turnbull, and a significant factor in his favour was his business experience.

On Thursday Turnbull cashed in this chip in his...

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On your bike Trump

  • Written by: Craig Fry, Associate Professor, Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Victoria University
imageA Trump election promise all cyclists can feel good about.

It feels like the entire world has Donald Trump fever. I’m sick of it already.

Serious and considered analysis will occupy the experts over the coming days, weeks, months and beyond. Many trees will die for the PhD theses and any number of popular books that will be written about what...

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Dear Mr President-elect Trump, thanks! We now live in the best of all possible worlds

  • Written by: Giovanni Navarria, Lecturer and Research Fellow, Sydney Democracy Network, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), University of Sydney

To the Honourable Mr President-Elect, Donald J. Trump

This morning I received the attached letter, it is for you. The sender is Mr Pietro Pangloss, a very enthusiastic Italian student of mine. Mr Pangloss wishes to covey his congratulations to you on your victory, but as he didn’t know how to reach you (he is hopeless with technology), I...

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  1. Race to the White House – President-elect Donald J Trump
  2. Australia to ratify the Paris climate deal, under a large Trump-shaped shadow
  3. Brandis scraps direction to Solicitor-General
  4. The third global bleaching event took its toll on Western Australia's super-corals
  5. There is no female president this time, and women are divided about it
  6. Creating a healthy company requires more than good pay incentives
  7. Skin patches instead of needles: can nanotechnology vaccinate the world?
  8. Trump can kill trade deals but he can't kill globalisation
  9. How did we get the result of the US Election so wrong?
  10. This Remembrance Day, digital commemoration makes it impossible to forget
  11. No matter where you look, the Trump presidency is worrying news
  12. What's in store for Asia under President Trump
  13. How Donald Trump used the media and the industry of outrage to win the US Presidency
  14. Trade with China or security with the US? Australia will have to choose
  15. We've learned a lot about heatwaves, but we're still just warming up
  16. Keeping warming below 1.5℃ is possible - but we can't rely on removing carbon from the atmosphere
  17. Should genetically modified organisms be part of our conservation efforts?
  18. Are we expecting too much of our junior doctors?
  19. Ignore the doubters: here's why Christopher Marlowe co-wrote Shakespeare's Henry VI
  20. Turnbull government will seek early engagement with Trump administration
  21. US election: how did the polls get it so wrong?
  22. Trump defies expectations and takes the White House on a wave of populism
  23. President Trump will change the United States and the world, but just how remains to be seen
  24. The markets tell us President Trump is worse than Brexit
  25. Trump the demagogue looks set to rule
  26. Vital Signs: it's a Trumptastrophe
  27. Why all the super buzz about the supermoon?
  28. Why hundreds of thousands of Muslims rallied against the Jakarta governor
  29. Self control, the harms of pot, and fat genes: how the 44-year-old Dunedin study keeps on giving
  30. Election day arrives and the stakes are high, not just for the US but the world
  31. Timeline: Americans, the economy and elections
  32. Business Briefing: what Australia can learn from a Polish economist
  33. Australia failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal children in out-of-home care
  34. Radical overhaul needed to halt Earth’s sixth great extinction event
  35. The lessons we need to learn to deal with the 'creeping disaster' of drought
  36. Scientists ponder the evolutionary urge to create - but where are the women?
  37. Why we're more likely to date someone who has an ex
  38. Tougher action needed in the fight against scientific fraud
  39. Advertising is driving social media-fuelled fake news and it is here to stay
  40. Senate report calls for disallowance of Brandis's direction to Solicitor-General
  41. Inquiry opens way for changing Section 18C and the Human Rights Commission too
  42. Politics podcast: Julian Leeser on section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
  43. Equity crowdfunding requires a rethink on company structure
  44. Do we care about old people behind bars, and should we?
  45. With its corruption crackdown, China is also stamping out innovation
  46. The plebiscite is dead, but the quest for marriage equality lives on
  47. Fifty standout articles in The Conversation's 2016 Yearbook
  48. Australian law needs a refresher on the science of HIV transmission
  49. Kids who watch porn won't necessarily turn into sex offenders
  50. Explainer: why an Australian trade deal with the UK could take a decade

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