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- A program that engages rural Australian communities with science also boosts visibility and career development for women researchers, a University of Queensland-led study has found.
- Professor Jian Yang, whose pioneering work has helped unravel the complexity of the human genome and genetic traits, has won the 2017 Prime Minister's Prize for Life Scientist of the Year.
- Researchers are going 'back to the future' to develop a forgotten antibiotic into a new treatment for life-threatening bacterial infections resistant to all known antibiotics.
- The Heart Foundation has partnered with IMB to project an image of a blood vessel network in celebration of cardiovascular research and recognition of World Heart Day on Friday 29 September.
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