The Therapeutic Good Administration (TGA) has joined a pilot of the Decentralised Procedure (DCP) of the European Union - a collaboration on the evaluation of generic drug applications. [ + ]

CO2CRC and The University of Melbourne have announced an $18 million infrastructure contract to purchase new laboratories, plant and equipment to be used in a range of carbon capture and storage (CCS) activities over the next five years. [ + ]

Minomic International and US-based Catalent Pharma Solutions will jointly develop the former's MIL-38 antibody drug conjugate into a potential new treatment for prostate cancer.

The finalists for the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE have been announced. The $10 million global competition asks teams to develop a consumer-focused, mobile device capable of diagnosing and interpreting a set of 15 medical conditions and capturing five vital health metrics. [ + ]

Positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy in heart patients with sleep apnoea can reduce mortality rates by up to 38%, analysis from ResMed (ASX:RMD) suggests.

Seasoned medical device executive Michael Dale will take over from Stuart A Randle as CEO of GI Dynamics (ASX:GID) from next month. [ + ]

Biotechnology company OncoSynergy has launched a crowdfunding campaign to enable studies of an experimental cancer drug in Ebola infection. It is hoped that the drug may be able to combat the Ebola crisis in west Africa, which has already claimed almost 1500 lives. [ + ]

The experimental drug ZMapp has proven effective in treating the Ebola virus in monkeys. [ + ]

AMS Instrumentation & Calibration has been appointed the exclusive distributor for the optek range of analytical instrumentation in its territories. [ + ]

Deciphering how to extract quantities of endothelial stem cells from the placenta is providing a potential new use for an organ usually discarded. [ + ]

Phylogica (ASX:PYC) has added a Japanese patent and two more from the US to its intellectual property portfolio.

A synthetic ceramic that is tough, highly porous and bioactive is being used to engineer bone. [ + ]

Analytical solutions provider AXT has signed an agreement with the Nano-scale Materials Analysis product lines of Thermo Fisher Scientific, whereby AXT will become the company's distributor in Australia and New Zealand for its Surface Analysis and Microanalysis product lines. [ + ]

AusBiotech fully supports the Australian Greens' moving of an amendment in the Senate to put in place quarterly payments for small and medium-size businesses eligible for an R&D Tax Incentive refund.

EOS Space Systems is collaborating with security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin to provide services to government and commercial customers in the space industry. The companies have entered into a strategic cooperation agreement for the development and rollout of space-tracking capabilities at a new facility in Western Australia. [ + ]