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The research, funded primarily by the NHMRC, is the result of 20 years of GAD-related research at Monash.

"This is an important medical breakthrough.

We hope to now harness our knowledge of how GAD works to drive the design of new therapeutics" Professor Whisstock said.

Synchrotron radiation, together with high performance computing, was key to the project's success, and members of the team had to travel several times to the USA to use the Chicago synchrotron.

The discovery comes as the Australian synchrotron comes online, and at a time that Monash is heavily developing its structural biology facilities.

"Monash University recently invested $5 million to allow a major upgrade to our structural biology facilities - these new facilities will really be world leading, and will dramatically accelerate the pace of our research," Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) Professor Edwina Cornish said.

Editor's Note: Original news release can be found here.

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