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- Improving the success rate of heart transplants is among the goals of a University of Queensland researcher, 50 years after the first such surgery was performed in South Africa.
- A University of Queensland PhD student will spend 2018 undertaking research and training in sophisticated imaging techniques to better understand how promising Parkinson’s disease drugs enter the brain.
- A new and improved version of the 'love hormone' oxytocin has been developed by University of Queensland researchers.
- Changes to greatly improve the outcome, treatment and support for women with endometriosis have been the driving force for studies by a University of Queensland researcher.
- Cancer biologist Dr Laura Genovesi is the recipient of a 2017 Early Career Fellowship to progress vital research into medulloblastoma, the most common type of malignant childhood brain cancer.
- IMB and Cure Brain Cancer Foundation are partnering to overcome the scourge of paediatric brain tumours
- Identification of a gene associated with motor neuron disease in people of Chinese ancestry will improve researchers understanding of the condition
- Like Spiderman IRL, these clever arachnids pin down their prey with super-fast jets of liquid silk.
- A small team in Brisbane are on the global antibiotic discovery map with their collaborative approach to fixing the antibiotic pipeline. They have become a benchmark network for researchers to join the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) field and advancing the AMR agenda in governments worldwide.
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