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- 23 August 2017Q&A with Donna Easton, Floor Manager
- 21 August 2017This year over 1000 National Science Week events took place across Australia including Catch a Rising Star: Women in Queensland Science, which sent teams of Queensland’s brightest early-to-mid career female scientists across the state to share their stories. IMB student Emma Livingstone travelled to Kowanyama, a remote Aboriginal community in Far North Queensland.
- A genetic analysis of a type of edible red seaweed has revealed how it has survived for over a billion years and thrives in harsh conditions, and how the health benefits of this important crop may be improved in the future.
- An international team of researchers has found a drug previously approved to treat breast cancer could also be used to shrink medulloblastoma, a common form of childhood brain tumour.
- IMB scientists have discovered a promising new approach to treat pain from tarantula venom.
- 26 July 2017Q&A with Amanda Carozzi, IMB Postgraduate Administrative Officer
- IMB researchers are identifying pathways that contribute to pain, to help the one in five Australians who live with chronic pain.
- Across Australia’s vast outback, parasitic worms are crippling sheep production. The little-known, blood-sucking Barber's Pole worm is one of the most dangerous, commonly killing infected sheep.
- IMB's Dr Larisa Labzin has won the NHMRC Frank Fenner Award for having the top-ranked early career research fellowship in 2016.
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