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Our popular workshops are back these school holidaysOur popular workshops for kids are back these school holidays and we have a jam-packed program full of fun and engaging science activities!
Our volunteers play one of the most important roles in our Discovery Centre – they help kids play and understand the games.
Hands-on science lesson plans for teachers related to the topic 'What's In Our Cells?'
While the Discovery Centre is free to use, we do appreciate all donations no matter how small they are. This will ensure that it remains free in the future.
A letter to the WA public from Jonathan Carapetis and Fiona Stanley.
Research
Perceived stress in mothers of children with and without islet and coeliac autoimmunity in the ENDIA studyWe aimed to assess perceived stress and influencing factors in mothers with children at risk of type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease who did, or did not, develop islet autoantibodies or coeliac autoantibodies by 4 years of age.
Visit the Discovery Centre and play our interactive games to learn about science and health research.
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Research
The Association Between Obesity and COVID-19 Severity in Children Differed Between SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A Multicountry Hospital-based Observational StudyObesity was a risk factor for severe COVID-19 in children during early outbreaks of ancestral SARS-CoV-2 and the Delta variant. However, the relationship between obesity and COVID-19 severity during the Omicron wave remains unclear.
A diet and lifestyle mobile app targeting a critical window in early pregnancy is being introduced to women in the northern suburbs of Perth, hoping to assist with breaking the ‘transmission’ of obesity from one generation to the next.