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Call for volunteers for quit smoking study with benefits

Queenslanders who want to give up smoking can access free nicotine replacement therapies and potentially life-saving lung cancer screening by participating in a new study.

1 November 2024
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Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Pharmacy researcher celebrated for excellence in Indigenous education

A First Nations Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ academic is aiming to help address the under representation of Indigenous people in Australia’s pharmacy workforce.

31 October 2024
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Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'s hat trick as national leader in CWTS Leiden Rankings

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'s hat trick as national leader in CWTS Leiden Rankings

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland is Australia's top research institute in the 2020 CWTS Leiden Rankings for the third consecutive year, placing first nationwide and 31st in the world.

14 July 2020

Social media inspired models show winter warming hits fish stocks

Social media inspired models show winter warming hits fish stocks

Mathematical modelling inspired by social media is identifying the significant impacts of warming seas on the world’s fisheries.

14 July 2020

Dosing begins in first human trial of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ COVID-19 vaccine

Dosing begins in first human trial of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ COVID-19 vaccine

The next critical phase for Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland’s COVID-19 vaccine is underway – with the research effort moving out of the lab and into human trials.

13 July 2020

Deaths in custody database gives voice to the vulnerable

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Deaths in custody database gives voice to the vulnerable

Legal professionals, journalists and researchers now have access to a new-and-improved version of the Deaths in Custody Project – the first comprehensive national database of its kind.

13 July 2020

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ researchers solve a 50-year-old enzyme mystery

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ researchers solve a 50-year-old enzyme mystery

Advanced herbicides and treatments for infection may result from the unravelling of a 50-year-old mystery by University of Queensland researchers.

10 July 2020

European honour for Dutch-born Aussie scientist

Professor Peter Visscher

European honour for Dutch-born Aussie scientist

An Australian scientist born in the Netherlands has been given a lifetime honour by a European organisation in recognition of his outstanding achievements in life sciences.

9 July 2020

ARC Fellowships boost environmental research

Professor Catherine Lovelock studies 'blue carbon' in soils and coastal wetlands

ARC Fellowships boost environmental research

Two University of Queensland environmental scientists have been named 2020 Australian Laureate Fellows.

9 July 2020

License agreement creates golden opportunity for cancer diagnostic technology

License agreement creates golden opportunity for cancer diagnostic technology

A novel rapid cancer diagnostic technology with the potential to quickly and easily detect cancer has been licensed for further development.

9 July 2020

Women’s egg quality dependent on metabolic factors

Women’s egg quality dependent on metabolic factors

Increasing the levels of a chemical found in all human cells could boost a woman’s fertility and help select the best eggs for IVF, according to University of Queensland research.

8 July 2020

Bores' lasting effect on landscape

Faure Island in Shark Bay, Western Australia (Credit: Graham Fulton)

Bores' lasting effect on landscape

Artificial watering points in rangelands are posing an increasing threat to surrounding biodiversity long after the removal of livestock, according to University of Queensland research.

7 July 2020

Water injections to relieve back pain in labour no longer ‘midwifery voodoo’

Water injections to relieve back pain in labour no longer ‘midwifery voodoo’

Sterile water injections provide effective pain relief for women with labour back pain, according to University of Queensland-led research.

6 July 2020