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- Scientists reported today they have created at least five new experimental substances — based on a tiny protein found in cone snail venom — that could someday lead to the development of safe and effective oral medications for treatment of chronic nerve pain.
- As the world prepares to celebrate annual International Women’s Day tomorrow, The University of Queensland is celebrating the groundbreaking research of three of its leading female early-career researchers.
- Researchers have developed a new method for rapidly measuring the level of antibiotic molecules in the blood and how they work against bacteria, paving the way for personalised treatments for bacterial diseases.
- The University of Queensland (UQ) has performed strongly in a global league table of subjects released today (26 February), ranking 21st in the world and 1st in Australia for biological sciences.
- IMB researchers have been awarded over $10 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to investigate pain relief, dengue fever vaccinations and asthma treatments.
- Summer student Cindy Bermudez spent her holidays studying plants, bacteria and fungi in an effort to find treatments for infectious diseases.
- Australian researchers have found a key to treating chronic abdominal pain may lie in a hormone that induces labour and encourages social bonding.
- The discovery of a Stone Age man with the genes for blue eyes and dark skin has revealed that blue eye colour likely spread through the European population before fair skin.
- University of Queensland researchers have discovered a protein in cells that could block the escape route of potentially cancerous cells and stop them spreading to other parts of the body.
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