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- UQ’s Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery (CO-ADD) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDI) which is hosted by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
- Researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) are advancing their mission to discover new antibiotics capable of combating multi-drug resistant bacterial infections after signing an agreement to screen the entire French National Chemical Library.
- IMB recently launched its new Queensland Facility for Advanced Genome Editing (QFAGE), based at UQ's St Lucia campus, which provides expert genetic modification services using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology in mice.
- You are invited to join us for a free half-day Membrane Trafficking and Dynamics Symposium on 18 April 2016 at IMB.
- Researchers from The University of Queensland have identified a treatment target for aggressive forms of breast cancer.
- CO2 emissions and thus global warming could rise more quickly than expected, according to a new model by University of Queensland and Griffith University researchers.
- UQ researchers, including those at the IMB Centre for Rare Diseases Research, are working to find causes and treatments for some of the world’s rarest diseases – which collectively affect more than 1.2 million Australians.
- This year on Rare Disease Day, Associate Professor Carol Wicking, Director of the IMB Centre for Rare Diseases Research, explains what rare diseases are and why a co-ordinated approach to tackling rare diseases is needed.
- An international team led by Australian researchers has studied the genetics of pancreatic cancer, revealing it is actually four separate diseases, each with different genetic triggers and survival rates, paving the way for more accurate diagnoses and treatments.
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