The ocean is lighting up with secret forms of communication between marine animals that may have applications in satellite remote sensing, biomedical imaging, cancer detection and computer data storage, a team of Australian and international...
20 November 2015Australian scientists have discovered a new virus carried by one of the country’s most common pest mosquitoes.
18 November 2015A University of Queensland project to develop a portable test to detect mosquitoes carrying dengue fever has won a $100,000 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Grand Challenges grant.
13 November 2015How much does your genetic make-up have to do with your weight? A University of Cambridge scientist will discuss the issue at a public lecture at The University of Queensland on 2 November.
26 October 2015The 183 people who generously donated their bodies to medical science at The University of Queensland in the past year will be honoured at a ceremony next week.
21 October 2015For the second year running a University of Queensland researcher has been recognised by Life Sciences Queensland for their work into regenerative medicine. ...
15 October 2015Nature's beauty has helped a University of Queensland scientist win an artistic prize.
22 September 2015Clinical trials for a dengue fever treatment could start within a year, following a discovery by University of Queensland scientists.
10 September 2015Imagine your partner goes for a quick swim while you sunbathe, but when they return you are unable to recognise them, despite them looking exactly the same as when they entered the water.
8 September 2015Professor Jenny Martin from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience is a finalist for a Pride of Australia Medal in the Inspiration category.
1 September 2015Koala studies may provide important new insights into how chlamydial infections compromise human male infertility, according to new Australian research.
27 August 2015An international research team led by University of Queensland venomologist Associate Professor Bryan Fry has developed a new technique for ‘milking’ box jellyfish to extract deadly venom for the development into lifesaving drugs.
11 August 2015Better drugs for chronic pain, building food security, and research into evolutionary diversity have attracted more than $8 million in funding for The University of Queensland’s latest ARC Laureate Fellowships, announced today (23 June).
23 June 2015Ovarian cancer cells can lock into survival mode and avoid being destroyed by chemotherapy, an international study reports.
28 May 2015Cough treatments could change dramatically after the herpes virus helped researchers discover that the respiratory tract links to two different parts of the nervous system.
20 May 2015One of the great tussles of science – whether our health is governed by nature or nurture – has been settled, and it is effectively a draw.
19 May 2015The more time we spend with people from another nationality the more empathy we have for them, University of Queensland research has found.
8 May 2015Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and UniQuest have formed an “open innovation” program to support academic research that holds promise of new therapeutic drugs.
30 April 2015When high school physics teacher Moses Rifkin wrote a recent blog post on “Teaching Social Justice in the Physics Classroom,” he ignited a new round of conversation about white privilege and the kinds of skills scientists need. Rifkin outlined how...
3 March 2015Scientists in Brisbane and Ireland have developed a small molecule that blocks a key driver of inflammatory diseases – a finding that could inspire new treatments for arthritis, multiple sclerosis and a family of rare autoinflammatory diseases.
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