Dairy tech moves from the lab to industry
Dairy products made using precision fermentation are a step closer with Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator transferring new technology to an industry partner.
24 June 2025
Protecting aquatic ecosystems by better understanding toxicity risk
Queensland scientists have pioneered a new method to assess the long-term risks posed by toxicants such as insecticides in rivers and the ocean.
23 June 2025
Pioneer varieties of legume for Australian growers
The University of Queensland has developed 5 new varieties of pigeonpea as a step towards the legume being grown more widely in Australia.
17 June 2025
A non-invasive pregnancy test for tigers developed at The University of Queensland has played a key role in the latest tiger cub births at Dreamworld on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
10 February 2016
The University of Queensland and Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries researchers have developed a clean and safe insecticide to combat nuisance flies in cattle feedlots, using spores of a naturally occurring fungi.
21 January 2016
Australia’s critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombats might not know it yet, but researchers from The University of Queensland are working on a wee solution to their population problems.
6 January 2016
A nutritionally-enhanced sweet corn developed at The University of Queensland to help prevent blindness in the elderly has won a national innovation award.
1 December 2015
Climate forecasts to 2050 suggest sorghum is set to remain Queensland’s top crop as temperatures rise and rainfall decreases across the State.
16 November 2015
In a world first, researchers from The University of Queensland have identified a key gene in barley that enables the plant to access water stored deep in the soil during droughts.
28 October 2015
UQ's Dr Alysha Elliott swabbed people’s hands and common workplace surfaces to expose some of the germiest places around the office as part of Global Handwashing Day.
15 October 2015
Until 1997, water supplies in downtown Manila were beset with infrastructure problems such as leaks, widespread unauthorised access and contamination.
11 September 2015
Eating organically grown food might make you feel good inside, but a University of Queensland researcher says organic agriculture is not necessarily sustainable and— contrary to popular belief — often relies on chemical sprays.
25 August 2015
University of Queensland researchers and Dreamworld staff are celebrating the birth of one of Australia’s rarest species of tree kangaroo.
17 August 2015
The next time you visit the supermarket, spare a thought for how food scientists are able to safely get omega-3 into milk, or probiotics into juice to bring health benefits to consumers.
13 August 2015
She chose plant science because she wanted to “feed the world”, and now University of Queensland student Louisa Parkinson is the face of the University’s new advertising campaign.
5 August 2015
University of Queensland scientists are leading a ground-breaking international animal welfare project.
21 July 2015
Grain growers across Australia face a high risk of reduced wheat harvests this winter due to a strengthening El Niño event, a University of Queensland plant science expert warns.
7 July 2015
The challenge of feeding a world population set to hit nine billion by 2050 is driving University of Queensland research that could revolutionise cereal production.
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