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- IMB researchers and Dr Luregn Schlapbach from the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital are fighting sepsis through developing better diagnostics
- A promising new therapy to stop Parkinson's disease, the second-most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide, with 10 million sufferers.
- A project using molecules from spider venom to develop improved treatments for chronic pain and stroke will be undertaken by Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) Professor Glenn King in partnership with University of Science and Technology of China, after receiving funding from the Queensland Government.
- Researchers have used human stem cells and single-cell sequencing to uncover the complex choreography of heart development
- Researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) and the University of Münster (WWU) have purified and visualized the ‘Cyclic Electron Flow’ (CEF) supercomplex, a critical part of the photosynthetic machinery in all plants, in a discovery that could help guide the development of next-generation solar biotechnologies.
- 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.
- A University of Queensland research discovery reveals how the body puts the brakes on inflammation, a discovery that will help us understand how poorly controlled inflammation exacerbates diseases including cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer’s, atherosclerosis and cancer.
- Professor Glenn King and partners have discovered a peptide in the venom of funnel-web spiders that could drastically reduce brain damage following stroke.
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