Heat-sensitive lipid capsules filled with chemotherapy have been ruptured remotely using ultrasound, enabling them to deliver their cargo directly to liver tumours. [ + ]

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have traced two particular genes across 759 species of plants, animals and fungi. [ + ]

Australian women at risk of having babies suffering severe mitochondrial disease may soon be able to have healthy children. [ + ]

Scientists have sequenced the full koala genome — a breakthrough which may aid in the treatment of disease and help inform conservation efforts. [ + ]

The idea of using an enzyme to make DNA is not new — scientists have been trying for decades to find a way to do it, without success. [ + ]

Paul Young, Professor of Virology and Head of School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, reflects on his long and rewarding career in virology and the exciting opportunities in the field. [ + ]

For the first time, researchers have monitored drug-resistant regions in pancreatic tumours as they travel, spread and grow in real time — and are finding new ways to neutralise these moving targets. [ + ]

A citizen science project led by Macquarie University is seeking answers to antibiotic resistance in one of the most unlikely places you could imagine — possum poo. [ + ]

Inspired by how bees make collective decisions, researchers are exploring how crowdsourcing techniques may help intelligence analysts produce the best-reasoned analysis from the available data. [ + ]

The newly developed nanoparticles are designed so that they can easily cross the blood-brain barrier and bind directly to tumour cells, where they deliver two different drugs. [ + ]

A new bleaching-assisted multichannel microscopy (BAMM) technique improves the quality and quantity of information captured in fluorescence microscopy. [ + ]

Researchers have developed a sophisticated computational framework to analyse single-cell gene expression levels, scalable to process millions of individual cells. [ + ]

Over 3 million years of evolution, the human brain underwent a considerable increase in size and complexity, resulting in the exceptional cognitive abilities we have today. [ + ]

The Australian Society for Microbiology would like to invite you to Queensland for its Annual Scientific Meeting and Trade Exhibition. This year, the meeting will be held in Queensland's capital city, Brisbane, from 1–4 July. [ + ]

Clinical-stage biotech company Dimerix is on a mission to treat chronic kidney disease and, with the help of lead therapeutic candidate DMX-200, it just might succeed. [ + ]