AusBiotech is pleased to announce that the 11th Annual World Congress of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT) will be held in Australia for the first time in March 2014. [ + ]

Neurobiologists have reproduced a sense of touch - showing how an organism can sense a tactile stimulus, in real time, through an artificial sensor in a prosthetic hand. [ + ]

Researchers have shown in a mouse model that infection with roundworms (nematodes) can not only combat obesity but ameliorate related metabolic disorders. [ + ]

Starpharma (ASX:SPL) said its lead dendrimer candidate has shown potential as the first treatment for adenovirus, the primary cause of viral conjunctivitis. [ + ]

Bioniche (ASX:BNC) is in talks with its lender to address a looming cash shortage and consulting with advisers to address the “challenges” posed by a group of dissident shareholders. [ + ]

Four public organisations have joined forces to take an international approach in health and medical research advocacy. [ + ]

IBM scientists have unveiled the world’s smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms. Named A Boy and His Atom, the Guinness World Records-verified movie used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of stop-motion action. [ + ]

Data from studies involving Allied Healthcare’s (ASX:AHZ) CardioCel technology in cardiovascular repair and stem cell growth were presented at two recent medical meetings. [ + ]

In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory, an insect called a RoboBee took flight achieving vertical take-off, hovering and steering. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings and then sped along a pre-set route through the air. [ + ]

One of Australia’s premier research facilities, the newly refurbished La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, has installed an extensive range of Enware safety, laboratory and specialist plumbing solutions into its teaching, research and laboratory facilities. [ + ]

New ASX disclosure guidelines on monitoring social media for leaks of market-sensitive information herald a new era of reporting compliance, according to Buchan Consulting. [ + ]

Revenue from the world’s major biotech markets grew 8% in 2012, but weak R&D spending growth is a sign that the sector has still not fully recovered from the GFC, says Ernst & Young. [ + ]

Alimera has launched Iluvien, the intravitreal implant designed by pSivida (ASX:PVA), into the UK market. [ + ]

Dr Robin Hobbs got off to a stellar start with a breakthrough finding published in Nature. Now he’s continuing to investigate a delicate balancing act that occurs within stem cells in the testis. [ + ]

Australia’s position in the Asia-Pacific region, in what has been dubbed the Asian Century, means biotechnology is poised in the right industry in the right region. [ + ]