Minister for Education Christopher Pyne has announced $115 million in funding for 150 projects under the Australian Research Council's (ARC) Future Fellowships scheme. The scheme promotes research in areas of critical national importance by supporting outstanding mid-career researchers to conduct their work in Australia. [ + ]

ImpediMed (ASX:IPD) has named the Macquarie University Cancer Institute as the Australian site for a post-approval trial of L-Dex, its lymphodoema detection device. [ + ]

UK healthcare company Endomagnetics has reached an agreement with Aurora BioScience as its exclusive distributor for Australia and New Zealand. The appointment will provide breast cancer patients in the region with access to technology that optimally locates lymph nodes as part of the cancer staging procedure in sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB). [ + ]

A new guide for 'omics'-based tests, focusing on genomic testing, has been released for public consultation by the NHMRC. [ + ]

The US ITC has upheld an import ban on a device sold by Taiwan's APEX found to infringe on ResMed patents, even after a redesign. [ + ]

As part of changes to business support made in the May federal Budget, the Department of Industry's services will be accessed via a new one-stop web portal called the Single Business Service. [ + ]

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is seeking feedback on the document 'Principles for the translation of 'omics'-based tests from discovery to health care'. [ + ]

Calazada's (ASX:CZD) PolyNovo now has approval to market its NovoPore TNP dressing in the majority of its addressable market, after securing approvals in Europe. [ + ]

The Global Innovation Index 2014 has ranked Australia 17th out of 143 economies for having a well-linked innovation ecosystem. [ + ]

Virax Holdings (ASX:VHL) has selected US cancer specialist Dr Joseph Sparano to lead phase I/IIb trials of breast cancer treatment candidate GGTI-2418. [ + ]

Researchers from Harvard University have found that the blisters on bubble wrap can be used as a sheet of small, test-tube-like containers for the analysis of medical and environmental samples. [ + ]

Simultaneously inhibiting the expression of another gene makes targeting telomerase much more effective in suppressing tumour growth. [ + ]

Blocking the malaria parasite's access to proteins needed for its survival may lead to the development of new treatments for this deadly disease. [ + ]

Nominations for The KuDos - Hamilton Science Excellence Awards are now open. The awards were launched in 2007 to celebrate science and innovation from within New Zealand's Waikato region. [ + ]

An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome and characterised the genes of the Asian liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini. [ + ]