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Heart disease is a major killer in Australia – but researchers are a beat closer to remuscularising your dodgy ticker with a lab grown solution.

The director of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at UQ has been appointed as Interim President of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, replacing outgoing President Dr Alan Finkel.

University of Queensland scientists will collaborate with top American researchers to develop an antibody against the growing global threat of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

An antibody manufactured at The University of Queensland will be used in world-first human Hendra virus clinical trials starting this month.