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- Professor Jian Yang, whose pioneering work has helped unravel the complexity of the human genome and genetic traits, has won the 2017 Prime Minister's Prize for Life Scientist of the Year.
- Researchers are going 'back to the future' to develop a forgotten antibiotic into a new treatment for life-threatening bacterial infections resistant to all known antibiotics.
- The Heart Foundation has partnered with IMB to project an image of a blood vessel network in celebration of cardiovascular research and recognition of World Heart Day on Friday 29 September.
- 90 seconds with PhD student Bronwyn Smithies
- An international research team has advanced our understanding of the genetic factors contributing to the risk of developing motor neurone disease (MND), a devastating disorder that kills two Australians each day.
- Dr Nathan Palpant studies human heart development using stem cells, to generate beating cardiac muscle cells in a dish. For this work, he received a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award in recognition of the contribution he has made to an international effort to fight cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death globally.
- Queensland researchers have discovered a potential treatment for the severe inflammation caused by infectious mosquito-borne diseases responsible for several outbreaks worldwide in the past decade.
- Researchers have built molecular switches that can control the immune response to many common allergens
- Researchers have advanced their understanding of how a healthy embryo forms in its very earliest days, a discovery that could be used to improve IVF and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).
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