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Dr Sebastian Furness from the School of Biomedical Sciences writes about liraglutide for the Conversation.

Our brain is an extremely complex and delicate organ. Our body fiercely protects it by holding onto things that help it and keeping harmful things out, such as bugs that can cause infection and toxins.
It does that though a protective layer called the blood-brain barrier. Here’s how it works, and what it means for drug design.

University of Queensland research has found exercise can help prevent or slow cognitive decline during ageing.

UQ Faculty of Medicine academics will be taking science out of their labs and into Brisbane pubs as they participate in the Pint of Science festival in mid-May.

A new drug could prevent sepsis-related organ failure and death by restoring the health of a patient’s blood vessels.

Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are taking drugs like Ozempic to lose weight. But what do we actually know about them?

A study involving University of Queensland researchers has found why medium-sized land animals, like cheetahs, are usually faster than large animals.

Faculty of Medicine researchers have received funding through Medical Research Future Fund schemes.

UQ researchers have joined forces with international colleagues to discover and validate new drugs for inflammatory diseases such as cardiovascular disease, brain disease, or joint disease.

University of Queensland researchers have compared brain development in marsupial and placental mammals, bringing us one step closer to understanding how the mammalian brain evolved.

Early hunter-gatherers faced long periods of fasting. Their access to food relied on successful hunting, fishing, and the availability of wild plants. Over time, the development of modern agriculture and the transition to industrialised societies changed our regular eating patterns, shifting our dinner time to later in the day to accommodate work schedules.

Three brave teams from SBMS take on charity hike.

A University of Queensland study has found that, though they looked like wolves, the extinct Tasmanian tiger – or thylacine – had brain cells like other carnivorous marsupials.

As part of National Pain Week (24-30 July 2023), UQ’s Professor Brian Key and Professor Deborah Brown travel back in time to consider whether advanced AI could one day feel pain like humans, since artificial neural networks are increasingly designed to reflect human neural networks.

Around 50 million people have been diagnosed with epilepsy around the world, including about 160,000 Australians.

A promising treatment for inflammatory bowel disease and a pre-clinical drug candidate for a devastating neurological condition are among four University of Queensland (UQ) research projects to receive support from Australia’s national biotech incubator - CUREator.