Monash University has signed a multiyear research and commercialisation deal with Janssen Biotech for the early detection and prevention of rheumatoid arthritis. [ + ]

Zelda Therapeutics has announced positive results from its ongoing preclinical research into the use of cannabinoids as anticancer agents. [ + ]

Researchers at CSIRO's Data61 are developing a software tool that could significantly improve the detection of the development of new blood vessels, which is known to precede the growth of cancers. [ + ]

OncoRes Medical, established to develop an imaging tool to improve the outcome of breast cancer surgery, will receive up to $6 million of venture capital investment from the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF). [ + ]

Avita Medical has announcement the appointment of Dr Michael Perry as its new CEO, as well as the results of a US pivotal burns trial. [ + ]

MTPConnect Chief Executive Officer Sue MacLeman has been awarded BioMelbourne Network's 2017 Women in Leadership award. [ + ]

Researchers from The Netherlands have developed a glass microchip for ultrafast separation and purification of DNA fragments. [ + ]

British intellectual property commercialisation company IP Group has signed agreements with nine Australasian universities to invest $200 million in finding and developing companies involved in disruptive innovation. [ + ]

Merck has announced further support for Australia's Multiple Sclerosis (MS) community with a new research scholarship to help fund neurology research at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. [ + ]

Nominations have opened for the AusBiotech and Johnson & Johnson Industry Excellence Awards, to be presented at AusBiotech 2017 on 25 October. [ + ]

The Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science has welcomed Emeritus Professor Alan Robson AO CitWA as its new board chair. [ + ]

Australian researchers have taken part in a study seeking to spread the bacteria Wolbachia, which reduces the capacity of insects to transmit viruses, in urban mosquito populations. [ + ]

ANSTO researchers have been using X-ray imaging on the feathers of long-distance migratory seabirds. The results of their study could lead to important new insights into the evolution and health of birds. [ + ]

Scientists have created designer viruses that alert the immune system and cause it to send killer cells to help fight cancer. [ + ]

US researchers have discovered a biochemical signalling process that causes densely packed cancer cells to break away from a tumour and spread the disease elsewhere in the body. [ + ]