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- IMB researchers are sharing their expertise in tackling drug-resistant bacteria with low and middle income countries, thanks to new funding from CARB-X.
- Australians are being asked to help unravel the mysteries of COVID-19.
- IMB researchers are carrying out genome sequencing to provide clues as to why jellyfish venoms are so deadly.
- 4 February 2021Institute for Molecular Bioscience researchers are exploring new frontiers in the fight against childhood brain cancer.
- Venom from spitting cobras has evolved as a form of self-defence, rather than for capturing prey, and is more effective at causing pain than venom from non-spitters.
- The main non-psychoactive component of cannabis has been shown to kill the bacteria responsible for gonorrhoea, meningitis and Legionnaires' disease.
- Tackling antibiotic resistance and exploring the role of genomics in the novel coronavirus are the focus of new funding from the NHMRC, to fight infectious disease.
- A future making breakthroughs in inflammation research and sharing knowledge with the next generation of scientists at UQ are the targets for newly minted PhD Amy Chan.
- Finding decision-making genes has implications for blocking a cell’s bad decisions when things go wrong in disease or in the environment.
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