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- IMB researchers have developed a new class of painkillers based on the 'love' hormone oxytocin to treat pain caused by IBS and IBD
- We know that light exposure is crucial for our health but did you know that the timing is too? How does our body know when it’s time to sleep, focus and poo?
- IMB researchers are measuring electric currents through individual channels in cells to understand how toxins cause pain.
- Some studies have shown increased coffee consumption is associated with neurodevelopmental difficulties including ADHD but is coffee really the cause?
- IMB research has failed to find strong links between drinking coffee during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental difficulties in children
- The first-ever drug to treat heart attack and protect donor hearts will now move to human clinical trials
- Most of us know how to keep our hearts healthy, but there are other risk factors that are beyond our control, including our genetics.
- Each October, a familiar debate resurfaces in the Australian media - the potential reintroduction of daylight saving time in Queensland. But why are scientists so against it?
- IMB researchers have teamed up to develop precise, personalised drugs for epilepsy patients
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