myDNA has conducted a national study into the mental health of Australians, revealing that two-thirds of people believe that improvements could be made to their medication. [ + ]

Fresh Science — an Australia-wide competition helping early-career researchers find, and then share, their stories of discovery — is now underway for 2017. [ + ]

Singaporean researchers have created polymer nanoagents that can 'light up' tiny areas of diseased tissues that conventional methods fail to detect. [ + ]

Medical and health experts from across Australia and New Zealand recently convened in Adelaide to discuss the way forward for particle therapy in Australia. [ + ]

The Zero Childhood Cancer program — said to be one of the world's most comprehensive child cancer personalised medicine studies — has finally reached Western Australia, seven weeks after its national launch. [ + ]

The nominees for the 2018 NSW Australian of the Year Awards have been announced, with several scientists and inventors reaching the finals of both the Australian and Young Australian of the Year categories. [ + ]

Scientists have reconstructed a fully functional epidermis, covering approximately 80% of the total body surface area, for a seven-year-old patient with a genetic skin disease called Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa (JEB). [ + ]

The ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Biopharmaceutical Innovation has been officially opened at The University of Queensland, 16 months after it was initially announced. [ + ]

Australian biochemist and molecular biologist Professor John Shine AC has been elected president of the Australian Academy of Science. [ + ]

The mechanism of how cells work is key to understanding how tumours metastasize as well as tissue regeneration and other bodily functions. [ + ]

A group of international researchers has developed a web tool, RefEx, that can easily search gene expression data available in public databases. [ + ]

MTPConnect and the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly boost the Australian medtech industry. [ + ]

ANU has announced the winner of its inaugural Grand Challenge Scheme — a $50 million initiative to provide funding for transformative research with the potential to radically change our understanding of, and responses to, the world's most intractable problems. [ + ]

The number of Australian girls taking part in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects has been declining at an alarming rate, causing Australia to fall behind compared with other developed countries. [ + ]

UNSW scientists have developed a way to control the shape of polymer molecules so they self-assemble into non-spherical nanoparticles. Their work is expected to improve the delivery of toxic drugs to tumours. [ + ]