The potential to produce cheaper medicines within edible plants including lettuce and canola has taken a significant step forward.
20 March 2018Researchers have shown why a fragment of a protein from the venom gland of rattlesnakes could be the basis for an alternative to conventional antibiotics.
15 March 2018Venom researchers from The University of Queensland have uncovered a unique and complex venom system within the tiny assassin bug.
23 February 2018University of Queensland researchers are one step closer to developing new medicines for treating inflammatory diseases, including allergies such as rhinitis, itchy hives, asthma, eczema and dermatitis.
4 September 2017An 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.
14 August 2017A $2.3M grant from The Australian Cancer Research Foundation is being awarded to UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience today to establish the new ACRF Cancer Ultrastructure and Function Facility.
15 November 2016The National Health and Medical Research Council has named two University of Queensland studies among its 10 of the Best Research Projects 2015.
19 August 2016Tarantula spider venom could become an unlikely ally in the war against sheep infections caused by nematode worms - a major cost for the international sheep industry.
19 July 2016Researchers from The University of Queensland have identified a treatment target for aggressive forms of breast cancer.
23 March 2016University of Queensland researchers are working to find causes and treatments for some of the world’s rarest diseases – which collectively affect more than 1.2 million Australians.
29 February 2016The director of The University of Queensland’s Research Computing Centre has been named the iTnews Education Chief Information Officer of the Year.
23 February 2016The Australian Research Council has awarded five new Future Fellows at The University of Queensland, from a total of only 50 awarded across the nation.
16 December 2015The University of Queensland has teamed up with the Queensland Department of Health to bring researchers and clinicians together to take action against antibiotic resistance.
13 November 2015Australian researchers have perfected a method of growing mini-kidneys from stem cells for use in drug screening, disease modelling and cell therapy.
14 October 2015University of Queensland researchers have discovered a new signalling pathway that controls cell adhesion, an important process that is disrupted in diseases such as skin cancer and inflammation.
15 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 2015A young superbug researcher at The University of Queensland is seeking public support in her bid to win the Centenary Institute’s Lawrence Creative Prize people’s choice award.
25 August 2015University of Queensland pain treatment researchers have discovered thousands of new peptide toxins hidden deep within the venom of just one type of Queensland cone snail.
7 July 2015Australia’s first Centre of Research Excellence in Chronic Kidney Disease will be established at The University of Queensland with a $2.5 million grant announced today.
17 October 2014University of Queensland researchers have discovered a way of predicting cancer-free survival in breast cancer patients and identified a new treatment target.
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