The Sydney Engineering Excellence Awards winners for 2014 were last week announced by Engineers Australia Sydney Division. The 13 winning engineering projects were selected by a panel of expert judges from 49 finalists. [ + ]

Minomic International has commenced a US pilot trial of prostate cancer screening test MiSat and plans to use the results to inform a larger trial and an FDA submission.

Researchers from Leiden University have found that the precision with which people make decisions can be predicted by measuring pupil size before they are presented with any information about the decision. [ + ]

Brisbane's Translation Research Institute (TRI) is offering a national prize to recognise Australian research that has resulted in a technology or treatment to improve human health. [ + ]

GI Dynamics (ASX:GID) has announced data showing that obese patients treated with its EndoBarrier device showed reduced 10-year cardiovascular risk. [ + ]

Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia has joined a global alliance to work towards better understanding and treating progressive multiple sclerosis. [ + ]

A German hospital has found Nanosonics' (ASX:NAN) trophon EPR ultrasound probe disinfection device to be superior to the standard manual wipe method. [ + ]

Applications are open for the veski Innovation Fellowships that encourage international researchers to relocate to Victoria. [ + ]

The Export Council of Australia (ECA) and the Manufacturing Excellence Taskforce Australia (META) have established a Deregulation Hub, with the purpose of producing an Agenda for Action to inform government on the streamlining of regulation that inhibits the ability of Australian manufacturers to compete internationally. [ + ]

Researchers from Macquarie University have shown that circular dichroism - the differential absorption of a system to left and right circularly polarised light - can be induced in mirror symmetric samples such as circular holes or spheres, so long as structured light is used. [ + ]

The WHO will fund research into using Vaxxas's Nanopatch vaccine delivery technology to help finally eradicate polio worldwide. [ + ]

An external review of the Cooperative Research Centres Program will be led by business leader David Miles.

Orthocell (ASX:OTI) has been granted an Australian patent for its regenerative product Ortho-ATI, while Antisense Therapeutics (ASX:ANP) will soon obtain a European patent for ATL1102. [ + ]

Thousands of engineers from all disciplines are coming to Melbourne for Convention 2014 - claimed to be the largest engineering event ever held in the Southern Hemisphere. [ + ]

In a major coup for the biotechnology industry in Australia, the prestigious International Biotechnology Symposium (IBS) will be held in Melbourne in 2016 in conjunction with the AusBiotech 2016 national conference and Australia Biotech Invest 2016 - making it the largest biotech industry event in Australia's history. [ + ]