VasCam Pty Ltd has been awarded a Queensland Government Innovation Start-up Scheme (ISUS) grant which will help progress its technology to the clinical trial stage.

22 February 2005

Therapeutic drug potency and stability are set to improve thanks to a new grant from the Queensland State Government.

21 February 2005

A venom component from the Taipan, the world’s deadliest snake, is being developed by Brisbane biotechnology company ElaCor, as a new drug to treat heart failure.

21 February 2005

A new hydrogen storage technology being commercialised by The University of Queensland spin-off company, Hydrexia Pty Ltd, could propel hydrogen gas into the mass market as an alternative green fuel.

21 February 2005

It might contain a cocktail of 70 potentially harmful chemicals and bloom around Moreton Bay, but fireweed doesn't seem to be causing too many serious health problems.

16 February 2005

In a bid to fill orchards with plumper fruit and cane fields with denser stems, Brisbane, French and UK scientists have isolated a new plant gene which controls shoot growth.

15 February 2005

A senior British minister will discuss The Challenges Today in Northern Ireland at a free University of Queensland public lecture this week.

15 February 2005

Cutting edge technology that could fast-track commercial production of high quality plant products will be on show at the Centre for Native Floriculture’s (CNF) first-ever Open Day this Thursday, 17 February.

15 February 2005

Has anyone ever told you during a conversation: “Stop, that`s too much information?” Well University of Queensland psychologists have discovered just how much too much information actually is.

15 February 2005

Researchers at the University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience have shown what many people already suspected – that as systems grow they become top heavy with management.

14 February 2005

Queensland`s student population is about to explode with the annual influx of school leavers ready to start University.

14 February 2005

The University of Queensland will hold a multi-faith - multicultural concert this month to raise money for those affected by the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake disaster.

10 February 2005

Year 11 and 12 students are invited to apply for one of the 50 spots available in The University of Queensland’s (UQ) popular FEAST program.

7 February 2005

The Sunshine Coast will host a team of archaeologists for the next two weeks as they begin their second year of fieldwork at historic Mill Point on the shores of Lake Cootharaba, just north of Noosa.

4 February 2005

The University of Queensland has a number of scholarships available to full-time, undergraduate students holding Commonwealth-supported (HECS-liable) places in 2005.

4 February 2005

For UQ Ipswich graduate Toni Risson, writing her first book has been child's play. Licking Lizards will be published by University of Queensland Press in July.

3 February 2005

A physics professor in the University of Queensland’s School of Physical Sciences has won the highest level award for physics in Australia.

2 February 2005

Some of Australia’s best-known literary hoaxes are examined in detail in a new book to be launched this month.

2 February 2005

The leading research behind one of Queensland’s brightest industry prospects will be on display when the Centre for Native Floriculture opens its doors on February 17.

1 February 2005

The universe, stars, planets and people would not exist today if there was no imbalance between matter and anti-matter. But how and when, in the history of the universe, did this imbalance develop?

31 January 2005