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- A research collaboration with Moderna to develop a Strep A vaccine has secured $8 million in philanthropic funding.
- Interim Queensland Chief Scientist Professor Bronwyn Harch is lending her support to the Soils for Science program.
- 30 January 2023While many high school students hit the beach over summer, one Brisbane 16-year-old spent part of his holiday unearthing new medicines.
- IMB researchers have identified a pathway in cells that could be used to reprogram the body’s immune system to fight back against both chronic inflammatory and infectious diseases.
- This year's winners of the Jo Underhill IMB Art Award have been announced.
- Dr Zeinab Khalil shares how the team uncovers the secrets hidden in soil, the challenges they’ve faced along the way, and plans for 2023.
- Chloe Yap won the 2022 CSL Florey Next Generation Award for busting the myth that the gut microbiome – the billions of bacteria that live in the gut - causes autism.
- Associate Professor Frederic Gachon explains how shift work affects our health.
- Our choice of partner can have a direct effect on the genomes of our descendants, an IMB researcher has found in work that has led to a national award.
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