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- 3 August 2023Does when you eat and how often matter? Here's what the latest research shows.
- The latest snapshot of the clinical pipeline of new antibiotics shows improvement, but not enough to avoid a crisis.
- Two IMB PhD students have been acknowledged for their contribution to STEM.
- This very fluffy (yet spiky) caterpillar has toxins from a surprising origin - and could be key to delivery of life-saving drugs.
- Did you know venom – a toxic substance injected by one animal into another – has evolved around 100 times?
- Professor Rob Parton is the only Australian who will this year join the European Molecular Biology Organization.
- Diverticular disease of intestine was thought to be caused by poor diet but researchers have shown it is highly inherited.
- An IMB researcher will investigate how cells communicate to form tissues and bodies.
- Researchers have reared cone snails for the first time and found that juveniles have different venoms to adults.
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