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Scanning ultrasound to potentially treat Alzheimer’s disease has been found to be safe and well tolerated in a first-in-human pilot study conducted by University of Queensland researchers. Read the full article here.  

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the name and image of a deceased person. The Great Court was originally built to house 50 ‘grotesque’ statues, but one space has remained vacant since 1993. Now, UQ is unveiling the 50th and final grotesque, and the subject is Margaret Valadian AO…

OpenAI launched Sora, a groundbreaking app for AI-powered video generation. Think TikTok, but every clip is created by artificial intelligence (AI) – from Olympic gymnastics routines to backflips on a paddleboard. We asked Dr Priyanka Singh, UQ Lecturer in Cyber Security, to get us up to speed on this phenomenon and give us her practical…

Welcome to our new Contact series, the self-checkout. In these stories, UQ experts will share the central questions we can ask to learn more about ourselves, along with research-backed strategies for personal growth. For our first instalment, we asked psychology expert Emeritus Professor Kenneth Pakenham from UQ’s School of Psychology to take us on a deep-dive into resilience. His research and…

University of Queensland researchers have been the first in the world to successfully grow fully functioning human skin in a laboratory. Read the article in UQ News.

People with the most common form of lung cancer could receive more effective, individualised treatment after University of Queensland researchers developed a way to predict how cancer cells will respond to different therapies. Read the article in UQ News.