A University of Queensland team has become the biggest supplier of experimental mRNA vaccines and therapies in Australia, with burgeoning demand from research and industry across the country.
The problem, according to Professor Ernst Wolvetang, is that the brain he wants to study is usually still inside someone’s skull. So that’s why he grows his own.
Researchers at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute have been studying ‘roadblocks’ in the brain and believe they are now on track to eliminating them – and possibly Alzheimer’s disease itself.
Using deadly spider venom to treat heart attacks and curing chlamydia in koalas are among new discoveries being developed at a national research centre headquartered at UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience.