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- IMB researchers have proven they top the state, with two of the three winners of the Queensland Women in STEM awards going to the Institute.
- A key discovery on the immune system’s powerful defence against bacteria will contribute to global efforts to design immune-boosting treatments.
- Molecules from the venom of one of the world’s largest spiders could help tailor pain blockers for people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
- IMB researchers have discovered the neurotoxin in the giant stinging tree targets the same receptors as spider and cone snail toxins.
- A healthy gut might be impacting the longevity of people living with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), but not in the way you may first suspect.
- Some new studies have found people who were never symptomatic, exposed to, or tested positive for COVID-19 that have immune cells that can recognise COVID-19.
- IMB researchers are continuing their search for new, eco-friendly pesticides with the support of the Australian Research Council.
- An affordable diabetes drug, metformin, could save generations of Australian families who live with polycystic kidney disease from kidney failure.
- Sex on the reef became a little weirder with new research suggesting algae that live in partnership with coral use a distinct way of exchanging DNA during sex.
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People have known for thousands of years that parents pass traits to their children, but it is only relatively recently that our technology has caught up to our curiosity, enabling us to delve into the mystery of how this inheritance occurs, and the implications for predicting, preventing and treating disease.
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