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a man with a beard sits behind a tray of small plants in a glasshouse

Years of scouring the bush and breeding work at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have resulted in new varieties of a native Australian plant valuable to the global pharmaceutical industry.

20 January 2025
Students from ¹û¶³´«Ã½'s Young Achievers Program

Almost 4,300 students have secured a place at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ in today’s major offer round, bringing the total number of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ offers so far to about 10,700 for Semester 1, 2025.

16 January 2025
Woman in hospital bed wearing a hospital gown with her abdomen being examined.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ researchers have conducted the first longitudinal study on the impact of endometriosis on Australia’s healthcare system, finding the disease is a significant cause of hospitalisation.

16 January 2025
doctor holding 3D model of uterus

Many women worry hormonal contraceptives have dangerous side-effects including increased cancer risk. But this perception is often out of proportion with the actual risks.

15 January 2025
An image of the Vaxxas high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP) technology, showing a small patch containing thousands of microprojections.

¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s BASE facility and biotechnology company Vaxxas have been announced as stage winners of a prestigious global prize to accelerate a patch-based mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 and influenza.

14 January 2025
A woman sits on a couch looking at a phone showing a sports betting app

Sports betting has historically been considered an overwhelmingly male pursuit – but those odds could be about to change, a ¹û¶³´«Ã½ study has found.

14 January 2025
Doctors handwriting a prescription with dried medicinal cannabis.

Australians spent more than A$400 million on medicinal cannabis in the first half of 2024 alone.

13 January 2025
A model jaw covered by a small latticed 3d-printed cover

Clinicians have successfully used custom-made 3D printed bone scaffolds, printed on-site at ¹û¶³´«Ã½, to rebuild part of a man’s jawbone.

9 January 2025
a spotty lizard with a wide mouth is licking its lips

The full cost of recovering all of Australia’s threatened animals and plants has been calculated for the first time.

7 January 2025
the round skull of an animal with large teeth

Canine hookworms are becoming increasingly resistant to drugs across Australia and New Zealand, according to new research.

7 January 2025
Young parents with dad holding toddler in air

Australian women are better educated than men but still face poorer job prospects and lower incomes.

2 January 2025
A cheetah in front of a racetrack

Researchers have taken a giant step towards solving the mystery of why intermediately sized animals are the fastest.

19 December 2024
Child filling glass with water from kitchen tap

A University of Queensland study has found no link between exposure to water fluoridation as a young child and negative cognitive development.

19 December 2024
Animal-inspired liquid metal 'spines' in focus being held with tweezers with a researcher wear safety goggles in the background.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ researchers have developed a 3D printing method to produce shape-shifting liquid metal robotics with musculoskeletal qualities inspired by animal physiology.

19 December 2024