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- 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.
- Australian bull ants have evolved a venom molecule that has implications for sufferers of long-term pain.
- IMB virologist Dr Larisa Labzin answers questions on long COVID and whether scientists could eventually develop a vaccine against all COVID-19 variants.
- An investigation into why disruption of the circadian clock is associated with disease uncovered 'feminisation' protecting the liver.
- 20 January 2022Get a glimpse of the weird and wonderful microbes burrowed in backyards across the country.
- 14 January 2022Citizen scientists across Australia are digging deep, collecting soil samples for IMB's Soils for Science program, helping researchers discover and develop new antibiotics.
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People have known for thousands of years that parents pass traits to their children, but it is only relatively recently that our technology has caught up to our curiosity, enabling us to delve into the mystery of how this inheritance occurs, and the implications for predicting, preventing and treating disease.
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