UK researchers are using combinations of cells from a single donor's blood to predict whether a new drug will cause a severe immune reaction in humans. [ + ]

Scientific equipment supplier AXT has announced the installation of a TESCAN TIMA automated mineralogy system at Northparkes Mines, a copper and gold mine located in Central West NSW. [ + ]

UK researchers are using combinations of cells from a single donor's blood to predict whether a new drug will cause a severe immune reaction in humans. [ + ]

Flinders University researchers are developing a surgical instrument that will enable bone graft delivery during minimally invasive spinal fusion procedures. [ + ]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will invest $52 million in biopharma company CureVac, as well as supply separate funding for several projects to develop prophylactic vaccines based on the company's messenger RNA (mRNA) platform. [ + ]

In a landmark probiotic study, European researchers have demonstrated the effect of a particular probiotic strain on body fat mass and glucose tolerance. [ + ]

James Cook University (JCU) has contributed to an international research project which found that immune cells have the ability to learn, remember and apply their knowledge to future challenges.

One in six Australians are said to experience some kind of auditory loss, and The University of Queensland (UQ) wants to know if chemicals in the workplace are to blame. [ + ]

One in six Australians are said to experience some kind of auditory loss, and The University of Queensland (UQ) wants to know if chemicals in the workplace are to blame. [ + ]

In news which may cause arachnophobes around the world to breathe a collective sigh of relief, researchers have discovered that spider venom contains compounds which have the potential to block pain.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along with its partners in the Grand Challenges initiative, is currently accepting applications for various upcoming grant programs. [ + ]

Belgian researchers have discovered a simple and effective way to untangle DNA, enabling its straightened-out structure to be studied under a microscope. [ + ]

Since the days of Albert Einstein, scientists have recognised that light can behave simultaneously as a particle or a wave. But there has never been an experiment able to capture both natures of light at the same time - until now. [ + ]

Bionomics (ASX:BNO) has revealed new data from the DisrupTOR-1 trial of its anticancer candidate BNC105 in patients with metastatic renal cancer.

BD Life Sciences is teaming up with biotechnology company Cellular Research to jointly promote the businesses' solutions for highly multiplexed cell isolation and single-cell gene expression analysis. [ + ]