Giving doctors an AI-powered head start on skin cancer
Detection of melanoma and a range of other skin diseases will be faster and more accurate with a new artificial intelligence (AI) powered tool that analyses multiple imaging types simultaneously.
7 June 2025
Quit smoking study expanded to North Queensland
Cairns and Townsville residents who want to give up smoking can access free nicotine replacement therapies and potentially life-saving lung cancer screening by participating in a research study.
30 May 2025
Breakthrough could boost quality of life for people with Parkinson’s disease
Considered the natural “hunger hormone”, Ghrelin could be the key to preventing debilitating chronic constipation experienced by people living with Parkinson’s disease, UQ researchers have found.
29 May 2025
Human activities have destroyed more than 7.7 million hectares of threatened species habitat, revealing critical failures with Australia’s federal environmental protection laws.
9 September 2019
A donation of $1 million to The University of Queensland will offer hope to thousands of Australians left without the ability to communicate following a stroke.
5 September 2019
New research has found that habitat loss is a major concern for hundreds of Australian bird species, and south-eastern Australia has been the worst affected.
3 September 2019
Research into global health issues has been boosted after UQ received more than $29.7 million in funding from the NHMRC and Medical Research Future Fund.
29 August 2019
A new figure has been put on the number of women in Australia living with endometriosis.
29 August 2019
A program that reduces loneliness, depression and anxiety caused by social disconnection has been developed by researchers at The University of Queensland.
28 August 2019
One of the most challenging unsolved cryptograms of the Irish Republican Army ̶ created in the 1920s ̶ has been decoded for the first time by a University of Queensland data scientist.
23 August 2019
Researchers from The University of Queensland and University of Cambridge are exploring ways to help scientists better protect their work from the influence of the food industry.
23 August 2019
Environmental conditions influence our body mass index (BMI) by increasing or decreasing the effect of inherited genetic variations, University of Queensland researchers have discovered.
23 August 2019
Research into the self-destruction of cells in humans and plants could lead to treatments for neurodegenerative brain diseases and the development of disease-resistant plants.
23 August 2019
A DNA test to rapidly detect chlamydia infection in koalas, offering on-the-spot results within 30 minutes, has been developed by a University of Queensland-led team of researchers.
22 August 2019
Poo transplants are helping expand koala microbiomes, allowing the marsupials to eat a wider range of eucalypts and possibly survive habitat loss.
21 August 2019
Commercial longline fishing around the world is having a significant impact on migrating shark populations, according to an international study featuring a University of Queensland researcher.
21 August 2019
The application of a revolutionary alternative to chemical fungicides to protect Australia’s $5 trillion global food and agribusiness sector is being spearheaded by researchers at The University of Queensland.
21 August 2019
The University of Queensland has moved to its highest ever position in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), sitting at 54th globally.
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