UQ and Europe

With two ground-breaking projects, UQ aims to reduce its environmental impact.

Holding off the rise of superbugs could be achieved by ‘resuscitating’ old antibiotics, with The University of Queensland researchers leading an international project to help combat the growing threat.

Venom from spitting cobras has evolved to cause predators extreme pain as a form of self-defence, rather than for capturing prey, according to new research.

University of Queensland PhD Candidate, Samantha Nixon, from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) has found a molecule from a Queensland funnel-web spider that can kill the blood sucking sheep worms decimating Australia’s sheep stocks.

Nine collaborative projects have been approved for $85,384 in funding in the 2020 UQ Global Strategy and Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme.

University of Queensland researchers collaborated with colleagues in the United Kingdom and Europe on the studies, which also showed a way to potentially prevent the virus from infecting cells.