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- IMB researchers have found that the New Zealand stinging tree produces toxins that could hold clues for future pain medication.
- IMB's Professor David Craik has been elected as a Fellow of the oldest scientific society in the world for his outstanding contribution to science.
- A potentially life-saving treatment containing venom from one of the world’s deadliest spiders is one step closer to human trials, thanks to a $23 million investment in a Brisbane start-up.
- IMB researchers have used genetics to show that a daily coffee causes no increased risk to pregnancy.
- Dr Melanie Oey is harnessing the power of microalgae to speed up wound healing, shaking up the industry in the process.
- An IMB PhD student will use a prestigious foreign exchange scholarship to progress his work on developing medicines from nature. Isaac Tucker is harnessing molecules found in the venom of Australian spiders to develop treatments for neurological and gastrointestinal diseases.
- Finding a genetic link between endometriosis and ovarian cancer will increase the understanding of both diseases.
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