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- Tackling antibiotic resistance and exploring the role of genomics in the novel coronavirus are the focus of new funding from the NHMRC, to fight infectious disease.
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- An IMB imaging scientist has secured more than $800,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to speed up and automate processing of microscopy data.
- Researchers are using tiny fluorescent probes to investigate how and why bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics.
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