Trajan Scientific and Medical (Trajan) has completed the integration of SGE Analytical Science (SGE) at all major operational centres in Australia, Europe, the US and Asia, with SGE entities registering new Trajan business names. [ + ]

Prima BioMed (ASX:PRR), having centralised its clinical and manufacturing operations in Europe, has promoted its head of European operations to CEO. [ + ]

A new ARC Special Research Initiative for Type 1 juvenile diabetes will see $35 million committed to research into this disease. [ + ]

The Australian Government has announced $35 million to advance research in type 1 (juvenile) diabetes over five years. Funding for the Special Research Initiative for Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes was announced yesterday by Minister for Education Christopher Pyne and Minister for Health Peter Dutton. [ + ]

US researchers believe they have answered the last major question in the effort to understand the pathway that leads to the creation of a bacterium’s cell wall. It is possible that their breakthrough could help lead to the wall's destruction and, with it, the eradication of various types of bacterial infection. [ + ]

Cells subjected to too much stress die, but if the stress isn't too extensive they engage an adaptive mechanism that helps them continue living. [ + ]

US research has found that while women are consistently attracted to studying biology in graduate school, numbers drop dramatically among faculty members. [ + ]

Expressions of interest are invited for a new training program that will arm early-career postgraduate researchers involved in medical technology and product-related research with the necessary entrepreneurial skills to successfully commercialise a medical technology. [ + ]

Fish can fly and a new book by Steve Howell reveals the strange beauty of these little-known creatures. [ + ]

Antisense Therapeutics has picked up a Canadian patent covering ATL1103 - a potential treatment for growth disorders including acromegaly - and has dosed 24 patients in a phase II trial. [ + ]

LBT Innovations (ASX:LBT) has published results from the largest study to date into the ability of its APAS technology to screen agar plates for potential pathogens. [ + ]

Deciphering how pain-relief drugs such as anaesthetics work on the body may lead to more targeted treatments for pain. [ + ]

The latest edition of AusBiotech's journal, Australasian Biotechnology (July 2014, Volume 24, Number 2), is out now. [ + ]

Sydney's NeuClone has entered a global partnership with The Serum Institute of India to produce a portfolio of 10 biosimilar monoclonal antibody drugs. [ + ]

German researchers have tested a new type of optical fibre with a hollow core, which is able to guide UV laser light without being damaged and with acceptable loss. Such light would normally damage conventional optical fibres. [ + ]