The Centenary Institute and the ACRF have announced the first dedicated cancer research centre in the RPA Hospital and University of Sydney precinct. [ + ]

Australian researchers, science leaders and science journalists are invited to enter the 2016 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes. [ + ]

Women in Technology (WiT) is launching STEMed — a one-day festival of education for the future. [ + ]

Viralytics announced positive data from a clinical trial of its lead drug candidate, CAVATAK, at the 31st Annual European Association of Urology Congress held in Munich. [ + ]

GlobalData has projected that the point-of-care (POC) diagnostics market will experience solid growth from $2.13 billion in 2015 to just under $3 billion by 2021, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.3%. [ + ]

Bill Ferris AC has told Australia's university leaders that increasing collaboration for commercialisation of research is both desirable and achievable. [ + ]

Scientists have discovered that a drug developed to treat high blood pressure has a powerful 'chemo-boosting' effect when combined with certain chemotherapeutic drugs for the treatment of angiosarcoma. [ + ]

The Prime Minister's $500 million innovation fund has already attracted significant international interest and will attract offshore investment to the country, according to life sciences fund manager Jeremy Curnock Cook. [ + ]

Science Industry Australia (SIA) has announced Danielle Butcher as the new executive officer of its board of directors. [ + ]

The International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS) Second Open Science Conference has begun. [ + ]

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced the imminent expansion of The University of Melbourne's Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute. [ + ]

Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have discovered a protein that is key to the development of blood cancers caused by a common genetic error. [ + ]

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk last week opened the TRI Innovation and Translation Centre in collaboration with Siemens Healthcare. Based at Princess Alexandra Hospital, it is said to be the second facility of its kind in the world. [ + ]

Researchers claim that a previously undiscovered mechanism in a key group of neurons affected in a neurodegenerating brain is the driver of the continuing cycle of neuronal cell death. [ + ]

Comprehensive data on the European bioeconomy — that is, those parts of the economy that use renewable biological resources from land and sea to produce food, materials and energy — has been released for the first time. [ + ]