Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have found that an injectable hydrogel can repair the damage caused by heart attacks. [ + ]

With substandard and counterfeit medicines a dangerous and growing problem in the developing world and elsewhere, identifying new technologies to detect such drugs is an urgent matter. [ + ]

In Spiderman 2, the superhero uses his webbing to bring a runaway train to a standstill moments before it plummets over the end of the track. But could a material with the strength and toughness of spiders’ web really stop four crowded train carriages? [ + ]

Novogen has signed a collaborative agreement with the Ingham Institute to begin progressing its pipeline of cancer therapies. [ + ]

Imugene (ASX:IMU) will receive a Japanese patent that will allow it to explore developing products to treat bone loss using its Linguet drug delivery platform. [ + ]

Crystal balls are needed if food analysts are to meet consumer expectations that all food adulteration scandals can be thwarted by laboratory testing. [ + ]

Sample management software provider Titian Software has announced that Boehringer Ingelheim has implemented the company’s Mosaic sample management software for the inventory management, sample tracking and sample processing of new biological entities (NBE). [ + ]

The Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, located at the University of Wollongong’s Innovation Campus, now includes a processing and devices facility to help bridge the gaps between research breakthroughs, prototyping and commercialisation. [ + ]

The AusMedtech national medtech conference, now its sixth year, will for the first time be held in Melbourne in May. [ + ]

AusBiotech has made a submission on behalf of the biotechnology industry to the Australia New Zealand Therapeutic Products Agency’s (ANZTPA) discussion paper. [ + ]

AusBiotech has commended the “thorough work of commission and its December 2012 ‘Draft Report’ on Compulsory Licensing of Patents”. [ + ]

Physicians at Weill Cornell Medical College and biomedical engineers at Cornell University have succeeded in building a facsimile of a living human ear that looks and acts like a natural ear. [ + ]

It turns out genetics is not as complex as we thought. It’s even more complex. Associate Professor Kevin Morris has recently arrived from the US and is working on uncovering the startling complexity of gene regulation. [ + ]

Continual government reviews of the intellectual property system are creating uncertainty in the life sciences industry that could hurt its future success. [ + ]

The Royal Mint has selected Analytical Technology to equip its new effluent treatment plant. [ + ]