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- IMB researchers have found how dietary choline travels through the blood-brain barrier - a discovery that could be used to help deliver drugs into the brain to treat neurological disorders.
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- New research has identified the main types of E. coli bacteria that cause neonatal meningitis, and revealed why some infections recur despite being treated with antibiotics.
- Two IMB researchers have been recognised in the prestigious Australian Academy of Science 2024 honorific awards.
- Discovering the genes involved in endometriosis is vitally important for our understanding and designing treatments. But it’s not the whole story.
- IMB researchers have discovered how the ‘on-switch’ for the body’s inflammation machinery can get stuck, causing rare genetic inflammatory diseases.
- For the latest edition of UQ Mythbusters during Endometriosis Awareness Month, we put some of the most persistent myths about ‘endo’ to bed.
- Snow Medical Research Foundation has awarded IMB researchers $8 million to dramatically advance the use of genomics to prevent chronic disease such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimer’s.
- 29 February 2024Rare diseases are by definition rare, yet put together affect around 300 million people world-wide with devastating consequences. Here are the latest breakthroughs from researchers at IMB.
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