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- Researchers have solved the structure of a complex molecular machine responsible for sorting and transporting cellular cargo.
- Venom from the giant red bull ant is helping IMB scientists understand the evolution of animal toxins in work that could lead to better treatments for pain.
- Professor Glenn King and partners have discovered a peptide in the venom of funnel-web spiders that could drastically reduce brain damage following stroke.
- Inside one in ten women an invasive disease is ravaging reproductive and surrounding organs. It causes serious pain and in some cases, infertility. It’s called endometriosis and we know very little about it.
- For the first time, scientists have seen in exquisite, real-time detail how immune cells survey their surroundings to detect threats to our health.
- A short-statured population of Indonesians living on the island of Flores arose independently of the extinct species Homo floresiensis – the so-called ‘hobbits’ – an international team of scientists has found.
- Geneticists Professor Peter Visscher and Professor Jian Yang have had their work recognised by prestigious funding from the ARC.
- The largest genetic study of type 2 diabetes has identified 42 new genetic variants in a discovery that could provide new opportunities to prevent and treat this disease.
- Research into a toxin from the desert bush spider could lead to new treatments for conditions such as pain, cardiac arrhythmia and epilepsy, and could also advance the development of ecofriendly insecticides.
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