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- For every life-saving antibiotic introduced, bacteria have developed varying levels of resistance, replicating and adapting faster than human cells.
- Researchers are daring to discover urgently needed new drugs and therapies from one of the most painful plants in Australia.
- Chronic pain is a life-altering condition, but the answer to this devastating condition could come from an animal with a deadly sting.
- It might be one of the most feared arachnids in the world, but research shows the deadly funnel web spider could make the difference between life and death for heart attack victims.
- Solar biotechnologies are being designed to expand Australian advanced manufacture, from next-generation COVID therapeutics through to renewable fuels.
- Associate Professor Markus Muttenthaler has been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship.
- Better medicines, food, nutraceuticals, nanomaterials and biofertilisers will flow from new Australian Government funding to bolster marine bioproduct innovation.
- Chloe Yap, an IMB clinician-scientist has won the Judge’s Award at this year’s Queensland Women in STEM Awards.
- A potentially life-saving treatment - Hi1a - for heart attack victims has been discovered from the venom of the Fraser Island funnel web spider.
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