A three-year-old patient, and a crucial discovery by Professor Carola Vinuesa's ANU research team, will transform diagnosis and treatment of lupus. [ + ]

ANU biomedical engineer Dr Steve Lee has plans to turn your smartphone's camera into a portable, high-resolution, imaging microscope — and that's just one exciting application for his tiny, inexpensive polymer lenses.

Scientists have identified a critical molecular 'feedback loop' that helps initiate and drive neuroblastoma — as well as a drug that has the potential to stop it. [ + ]

The European AIDS Vaccine Initiative (EAVI2020) is a €23 million program to speed up the search for an effective HIV vaccine.

Associate Professor Pilar Blancafort has conducted an expanded study to show that the biologics drug Omomyc, fused to a cell-penetrating Phylomer (1746), can be used to treat cancer. [ + ]

Studying experimental medicines in people is a vital part of the development process for all new medicines and vaccines. GSK Australia Medical Director Dr Andrew Weekes recognises the importance of publicly disclosing this research.

A study of malaria infection, illness and transmission rates among children in Papua New Guinea has yielded a therapeutic strategy that could quell or even eliminate infections by two of the most persistent malaria parasites: Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale. [ + ]

Researchers have found that the colour of neuronal cells in the nose can be used to diagnose a rare genetic disorder called MELAS syndrome, which can result in stroke and dementia. [ + ]

Scientists have solved a mystery which has plagued NASA since the Apollo missions to the moon — the fact that samples of lunar soil brought back to Earth contained low levels of organic matter in the form of amino acids. [ + ]

Orthocell has released positive follow-up data from a study of its tendon cell treatment for tennis elbow in workers compensation patients. [ + ]

Australian and US researchers have identified a gene that triggers the inflammatory condition that can lead to the full-body infection sepsis. The gene's discovery could potentially lead to the development of new treatments for the deadly disease. [ + ]

At first glance, cement, cancer cells, interstellar dust, two-dimensional materials, billion-year-old microfossils, emulsions and the Kramers-Heisenberg-Dirac formula appear to have little if anything in common. [ + ]

Researchers have used transcranial magnetic stimulation to temporarily shut down a region of the brain — specifically, the region that solves abstract problems addressed by ideology. [ + ]

The 2015 recipients of the Ramaciotti Awards for Biomedical Research, distributed by the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundations, have been revealed.

Breast cancer vaccine candidate OQR200, developed by OncoQR, has successfully completed a proof-of-concept study in non-human primates (NHPs).