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Griffith University has produced a major new online resource for Australia‘s researchers. The Compounds Australia Structure PoRtal (known as “CASPeR”) is an online portal providing access to the data of more than 50,000 different compounds and samples. Researchers can search for a chemical structure they believe will assist their work and the database will offer […]

A deadly bacteria that can be picked up by a simple sniff can travel to the brain and spinal cord in just 24 hours, a new Griffith University and Bond University study has found.

Queensland Health Minister, The Honourable Lawrence Springborg MP, was more than happy to pay $100 to be part of the Sponsor a Sample initiative aiding medical research through Griffith University's Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery.

Degenerative brain diseases such as dementia and Parkinson’s disease will be targeted under a new partnership between Queensland scientists and Chinese experts in dementia research and traditional herbal medicine.

You’re never too young to start learning about the mysteries and marvels of science. This is the message personnel from Griffith University’s world-leading Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery will be repeating on Friday (August 8) when the Royal Queensland Show, better known as the Ekka, gets under way. Eskitis at the Ekka is just one […]

It’s one thing to teach at a university; it’s entirely another to help establish one. Yet this is the privilege and responsibility afforded Griffith University’s Manager of Research Development, Dr Graham Wise, who has embarked upon a senior role in a remarkable higher education project in Ecuador. Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM (IKIAM The Amazon Region […]

The potential for new treatments for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, diabetes and autism has improved after scientists successfully mapped the genes of a parasitic worm in pigs. Published in the influential journal Nature Genetics, the findings of a global study of the porcine whipworm Trichuris suiscould carry major ramifications for world […]