Profiling a killer

Profiling a killer

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  • 15 February 2021
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Prof Glenn King, co-leader of our Discover theme, and his team are on the hunt to unravel the toxin arsenals of iconic Australian killers the box and Irukandji jellyfish. Sequencing the genomes of these two jellyfish, the researchers will be able to explain why the toxins of these jellyfish are so deadly with an aim to develop better anti-venoms or other treatments.

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Categories: Discover, Featured

Participating Institutions

The University of Queensland
The University of Sydney
Australian National University
Monash University
Queensland University of Technology
Edith Cowan University
CSIRO

International Partners

Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard
University of Washington
University of Tokyo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Southampton

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