Classroom Off the grid

Bracken Ridge State School has become the first school in Australia to have a classroom that runs entirely on its own renewable energy.

 

The classroom has been taking advantage of rooftop solar panels supplied by Tech startup Hive Technology and a Powerwall Battery System supplied by Tesla, saving the school around 3000 dollars in power bills.

 

World-first trial for coeliac vaccine

An international trial of a vaccine which scientists hope will allow coeliacs to abandon their gluten free diet is being rolled out in Australia.

The treatment will allow the immune system’s abnormal toxic response to gluten to be reprogrammed, helping 160,000 Australians with coeliac disease to avoid a strict lifelong gluten free diet.

The Australian trials will start at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Clinical Trials Centre in Melbourne, followed by Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Mackay and the Sunshine Coast.