AXT and Krishagni Solutions have announced a distributorship agreement for the OpenSpecimen biobanking software solution for clinical researchers. The product is designed to speed up workflow, allowing users to spend less time tracking specimens. [ + ]

A new species of snail has been discovered by a Bush Blitz expedition that took place on Bush Heritage Australia's Carnarvon Station Reserve in the highlands of southern Queensland. [ + ]

Westmead's Children's Medical Research Institute has become home to the Australian Cancer Research Foundation Telomere Analysis Centre (ATAC). The centre's opening coincides with recent CMRI research that illustrates why studying telomeres may lead to treatments for some of the most aggressive cancers. [ + ]

The Advanced LIGO project has been officially opened in the United States. The project aims to complete the search for the last missing piece of Einstein's general theory of relativity - gravitational waves. [ + ]

Merck Millipore and Singulex have entered into a definitive agreement under which Merck Millipore will control and manage the Singulex Life Science Research business. As a result, Merck Millipore will have exclusive rights to further develop and commercialise Singulex's Single Molecule Counting (SMC) technology for research applications worldwide. [ + ]

A study involving 350,000 people, from 66 nations, has found that the stereotypical association of men (rather than women) with science is prevalent across the world. [ + ]

Healthcare company GSK Australia has received a $1 million grant through the federal government's Manufacturing Transition Programme. The funding will support GSK's advanced manufacturing expansion plans at its Boronia site in Melbourne's outer-eastern suburbs. [ + ]

Researchers from the University of Sydney have published a diagram which charts, in unprecedented detail, the insulin/IGF1 signalling pathway (ISP) - a complex network of molecular interactions triggered by insulin which plays an essential role in long-term health, obesity and diseases such as diabetes. [ + ]

Minister for Education and Training Christopher Pyne has commissioned the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) to undertake a review of Australia's research training system to ensure that it meets our research needs in the 21st century. [ + ]

Australia's National Measurement Institute (NMI) has presented the annual Barry Inglis Medal and the NMI Prize. The awards highlight the importance of measurement across diverse spheres of knowledge. [ + ]

A new partnership between G3Lab and WOTSO WorkSpace is bringing top-end lab space within reach of a broad range of lab users, offering flexible lab spaces for rental in the heart of Sydney. [ + ]

Minister for Industry and Science Ian Macfarlane has undertaken a special visit to the Trajan Scientific and Medical global headquarters in Melbourne, facilitated by Member for Deakin Michael Sukkar. [ + ]

The CRC Association's annual conference, to be held from 25-27 May in Canberra, will be celebrating 25 years of innovation through the Cooperative Research Centres Program. [ + ]

Australian researchers have found that neutrophils - innate immune cells that swarm to sites of injury within minutes to undertake damage control and kill invaders - can in some cases enlist reinforcements in their fight against pathogens. [ + ]

Chinese and Australians scientists have published research experimentally exploring how quantum matter changes when it makes a 'quantum phase transition'. [ + ]