Normal sea squirt muscle cells form a ring shape (left), but after “boss gene” intervention (right), the cells cluster quite differently. Images: Nathan Palpant.

The chain of command inside human cells is similar to the way a factory is run, two University of Queensland researchers say.

14 December 2020
UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences researcher Elissa O’Malley conducting wastewater analysis. Image: UQ

Queensland has the highest regional MDMA consumption in Australia and the second highest of cocaine and methyl amphetamine, according to a report released by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission today.

29 October 2020
UQ researcher Dr Abdalla Ali holding a 3D-printed bone scaffold in a laboratory.

A technological advancement that has the potential to stimulate bone formation inside the human body has been developed by University of Queensland researchers.

15 October 2020
Professor Justin Cooper-White ... viscoelasticity is crucial to future biomedical implants

Tissue engineering experts say future biomaterials will need to mimic the human body’s “stretch and squidge” properties.

17 September 2020

University of Queensland researchers have developed biosensors that use nanoengineered porous gold which more effectively detect early signs of disease, improving patient outcomes.

25 August 2020
Cartoon image of people sitting on public transport

Researchers from The University of Queensland are recruiting people living with dementia, along with their carers, to help with a study exploring emerging transport technologies.

5 August 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) improved skin cancer diagnostic accuracy when used in collaboration with human clinical checks, an international study including University of Queensland researchers has found.

24 June 2020

Australians have seen a huge increase in telehealth consults since the outbreak of COVID-19 after University of Queensland researchers crunched the numbers from Medicare.

8 June 2020

Australia’s COVIDSafe app needs to be faster and have higher uptake rates to be effective as the nation’s digital contact tracing solution, according to a working paper released by The University of Queensland’s Institute for Social Science Research.

5 June 2020

Queensland researchers are leading a worldwide clinical study using AI to examine COVID-19 patient data from 300 intensive care units (ICU) to provide insight for health professionals to determine the best treatments for the disease.

13 May 2020
L-R - Giordano Masnata, Isabelle Fleming, Mitchell Davis and Mitchell Heard. Picture by Mark Calleja

A mission to design ventilators that could serve COVID-19 patients has brought together 200 bright engineers and their students at The University of Queensland.

20 April 2020