AXT has partnered with Unchained Labs and will now be exclusively distributing its innovative and novel range of instruments for the analysis and formulation of biologics in Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

InterSystems Corporation is holding a seminar to celebrate the launch of what it claims is the world's first laboratory business management system (LBMS), TrakCare Lab Enterprise. [ + ]

Researchers have revealed that they can 'see' emotional states in the human brain using magnetic resonance imaging — even when their subjects are just letting their minds wander. [ + ]

Scientists have found that peptide molecules from the venom of a marine cone snail contain an insulin-like natural protein that can operate more rapidly than human insulin. [ + ]

Singaporean scientists have developed a protein that can alter DNA in living cells with higher precision than current methods. [ + ]

The Johnson & Johnson Australia Family of Companies has announced the winners of its inaugural Heath and Technology Challenge (HaTCHathon). [ + ]

Lonza has announced a resource that addresses a key topic of debate in the endotoxin detection community — low endotoxin recovery (LER). [ + ]

The National Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility has become the only geotechnical modelling facility in the world that operates three centrifuges, welcoming a third 26-tonne fixed-beam centrifuge into its Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre building. [ + ]

Scientists have inadvertently discovered how to create a new type of crystal using light more than 10 billion times brighter than the sun, reversing what has been accepted thinking in crystallography for more than 100 years. [ + ]

Researchers have developed tiny, star-shaped molecules that can apparently kill superbugs — bacteria that are no longer affected by current antibiotics. [ + ]

The ACRF International Centre for the Proteome of Cancer (ProCan) is holding a symposium to celebrate its official opening. [ + ]

Researchers have found that doctors around the world are overdiagnosing the most common thyroid cancer, creating an artificial epidemic that costs billions of dollars each year in unnecessary medical costs. [ + ]

ANU scientists have developed a water-repelling coating that could one day be used to waterproof mobile phones, prevent ice from forming on aeroplanes and protect boat hulls from corroding. [ + ]

A study led by the University of Adelaide has found that the evolution of the human brain is closely linked with an increase in its blood supply. [ + ]

Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals and Griffith University have announced pentosan polysulfate sodium (PPS) as a potential breakthrough in the treatment for alphavirus-induced arthralgia and arthritis. [ + ]