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Australian scientists have joined forces as part of a coordinated national approach to the Human Cell Atlas, an ambitious global initiative to create an ‘instruction manual for life itself.’

90 seconds with PhD student Emma Livingstone

If you could take a test that would reveal the diseases you and your family might be more likely to get, would you want to do it? Rapid developments in gene testing technologies have sparked debate about whether healthy Australians should undergo genetic testing.

Our #sciart gallery explores the building blocks of life itself in remarkable and unprecedented detail.

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.

90 seconds with PhD student Bronwyn Smithies

An international research team has advanced our understanding of the genetic factors contributing to the risk of developing motor neurone disease (MND), a devastating disorder that kills two Australians each day.

Dr Nathan Palpant studies human heart development using stem cells, to generate beating cardiac muscle cells in a dish. For this work, he received a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award in recognition of the contribution he has made to an international effort to fight cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death globally. 

Queensland researchers have discovered a potential treatment for the severe inflammation caused by infectious mosquito-borne diseases responsible for several outbreaks worldwide in the past decade.

Researchers have built molecular switches that can control the immune response to many common allergens

Researchers have advanced their understanding of how a healthy embryo forms in its very earliest days, a discovery that could be used to improve IVF and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).

When Dr Jeffrey Mak, UQ IMB and Imaging CoE postdoctoral researcher in Prof David Fairlie’s lab was awarded one of only 25 prestigious places in the international SciFinder Future Leaders program, he had the opportunity of a lifetime to bolster his professional path with powerful new knowledge, skills and relationships.

A genetic analysis of a type of edible red seaweed has revealed how it has survived for over a billion years and thrives in harsh conditions, and how the health benefits of this important crop may be improved in the future.

An IMB researcher has received funding to create a simple, affordable biosensor for monitoring biological information in real time.

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.