Plastic debris have been identified as pollutants in the oceans due to their long lifetime and low degradability, killing more than 1 million seabirds and 10, 000 mammals every year.
At the AIBN, our researchers are pushing the boundaries of personalised medicine: developing new, patient-specific treatments to address serious diseases. But we’ve also got people whose mission is to prevent sickness in the first place.
In the hunt for new and more sophisticated cancer-fighting tools, theranostics are a promising double-act: an emerging group of materials capable of identifying and healing tumours.
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The development of a new, non-flammable electrolyte material could mean a safer and cheaper alternative to lithium-ion batteries and – thanks to the work of University of Queensland researchers – another step towards a cleaner energy future.
Tiny nano-particles less than a thousandth of a millimetre in size are providing a promising new method to protect sheep against deadly flystrike, according to University of Queensland research.
Some of the world’s deadliest snakes could soon be saving lives, with research from The University of Queensland showing venom could be used to stop uncontrolled bleeding.
