Illumina has a new addition to its portfolio: genomic compression-software company Enancio, based in Cesson-Sévigné, France. [ + ]

Researchers have designed and validated a low-cost 3D-printed device that, when connected to a smartphone, makes it possible to conduct chemical analyses. [ + ]

The shared brain areas showing structural aberrations were mainly in cortical areas associated with cognitive processing, memory and self-awareness. [ + ]

Researchers have synthesised carbon dots from human hair waste that can detect trace amounts of chloroform in water. [ + ]

Metastatic breast cancer cells can reprogram natural killer (NK) cells so that they stop killing cancer cells and instead assist in metastasis. [ + ]

Mutating the enzyme at the heart of the CRISPR gene editing system can improve its fidelity, which may prove therapeutically safer than the current system. [ + ]

A portable, easy-to-use, point-of-care diagnostic system for COVID-19 can deliver patients their test results around one hour from the time of their nasal swab. [ + ]

Traditionally, doctors have treated men and women as the same when it comes to heart disease — but Dr Leslie Cho says it is time to start thinking differently. [ + ]

Remdesivir has been described as the most promising treatment option so far to reduce hospitalisation time for those suffering from severe SARS-Cov-2 infections. [ + ]

Scientists have developed an ultrastable, selective catalyst to dehydrogenate propane without deactivation, even at temperatures of more than 600°C. [ + ]

Blood cancer patients at Melbourne's Epworth HealthCare and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre now have access to circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) genomic testing. [ + ]

Two impairments of old age — frailty and immunity decline — can be halted and even partially reversed using a novel cell-based therapeutic approach. [ + ]

By reducing the beam diameter of an X-ray free-electron laser to 6 nm, researchers bring the utility of these lasers for imaging structures closer to the atomic level. [ + ]

A non-invasive technology platform utilises low-frequency ultrasound (250 kHz) to detonate microscopic tumour-targeted bubbles like warheads. [ + ]

Professor Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh has been awarded the 2020 Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science by the Royal Society of Chemistry. [ + ]