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It’s hoped a dietary fibre supplement could one day help manage or prevent type 1 diabetes, with research at The University of Queensland set to progress to the next stage. UQ Diamantina Institute Associate Professor Emma Hamilton-Williams has used the advent of National Diabetes Week to discuss the importance and challenges of her current research. “Type 1 diabetes…

A student-led initiative to vaccinate homeless people for free has received an “overwhelming response”, according to its seven University of Queensland founders. The VacSeen Project, which partners with existing health services to cover the cost of flu vaccines for the homeless, was partly the brainchild of second-year UQ Medicine student and project president, Jeremy Hunt. “In a nutshell,…

Ultrasound can overcome some of the detrimental effects of ageing and dementia without the need to cross the blood-brain barrier, researchers at The University of Queensland have found. Professor Jürgen Götz from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) led a multidisciplinary team who showed low-intensity ultrasound effectively restored cognition without opening the barrier in mice models. The findings provide a potential new avenue…

In a major scientific leap, University of Queensland researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that would otherwise be impossible to see. This paves the way for applications in biotechnology, and could extend far beyond this into areas ranging from navigation to medical imaging. The microscope is powered by the science…

Scientists are investigating whether rising global temperatures may lead to more stillbirths, saying further study is needed on the subject as climates change. Researchers from The University of Queensland’s School of Earth and Environmental Science and the Mater Research Institute reviewed 12 studies, finding extreme ambient temperature exposures throughout pregnancy appeared to increase risk of stillbirth, particularly late in…

In a world first, a satellite-based global coral reef bleaching monitoring system will scan the Earth’s oceans for coral-killing bleaching events in real-time. The Allen Coral Atlas project, an international research collaboration featuring University of Queensland scientists, are using unprecedented detailed habitat maps of all global coral reefs – over 230,000 of them – to detect reef…