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- An international team of researchers has found a drug previously approved to treat breast cancer could also be used to shrink medulloblastoma, a common form of childhood brain tumour.
- A research paper published in Nature journal overnight revealed that scientists had successfully edited the genomes of human embryos to prevent a mutation that causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an inherited condition that causes sudden heart failure in young people.
- IMB scientists have discovered a promising new approach to treat pain from tarantula venom.
- IMB researchers are identifying pathways that contribute to pain, to help the one in five Australians who live with chronic pain.
- Across Australia’s vast outback, parasitic worms are crippling sheep production. The little-known, blood-sucking Barber's Pole worm is one of the most dangerous, commonly killing infected sheep.
- IMB's Dr Larisa Labzin has won the NHMRC Frank Fenner Award for having the top-ranked early career research fellowship in 2016.
- Professor Peter Koopman speaks about his research into CRISPR and the possibilities it could offer to future generations, as well as those suffering from genetic conditions right now.
- A discovery by University of Queensland researchers about the evolution of a tiny fish could have implications for sufferers of muscle diseases such as muscular dystrophy.
- IMB PhD student Andrew White will network with Nobel Prize winners at the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting later this month.
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