Professor William Carroll, a multiple sclerosis clinician and researcher at Western Australia's Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, has been elected president of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN). [ + ]

Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals has received ethics approval for its Phase 2b clinical trial to investigate pentosan polysulfate sodium (PPS) in subjects with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and bone marrow edema lesions (BMELs). [ + ]

UK scientists have used CRISPR-CAS9 to study the role of the OCT4 protein in early human embryo development. [ + ]

ComBio2017 — the combined meeting of the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Australian Society of Plant Scientists and Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology — will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 2–5 October 2017. [ + ]

Personalised medicine for childhood cancers in Australia is now one step closer, following the launch of the Zero Childhood Cancer program's national clinical trial. [ + ]

MTPConnect and LSQ (Life Sciences Queensland Limited) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to boost the Australian life sciences sector. [ + ]

Australian researchers have discovered that metformin, a common anti-diabetic drug, could have anti-ageing properties which could lead to longer, healthier lifespans. [ + ]

Researchers have grown three-dimensional samples of mineralised bone from human mesenchymal stem cells without typical osteoinductive media. [ + ]

Australian scientists have discovered a new way to store quantum data, thus taking a major leap forward to providing the building blocks for a global quantum internet. [ + ]

The Amgen Foundation, in partnership with the University of Sydney, has launched the Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) in Australia as part of a global $10.5 million investment in science education. [ + ]

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is revising ISO/IEC 17025, General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, 12 years after the publication of the previous version. [ + ]

Researchers have demonstrated a way to detect and image electronic spins non-invasively with ambient sensitivities and resolution orders of magnitude never before achieved. [ + ]

Japanese researchers have revealed what they claim to be the origins of cancer-associated fibroblasts — cells that play a key role in cancer progression — in a breakthrough that could lead to new approaches to cancer treatment. [ + ]

German biotech company Solida Biotech has appointed Scientex as a distributor. [ + ]

Merck is collaborating with independent not-for-profit Project Data Sphere to jointly lead the Global Oncology Big Data Alliance (GOBDA). [ + ]