The 2014 Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Laureate Fellowships have been announced by Minister for Education Christopher Pyne. The scheme supports groundbreaking, internationally competitive research that builds Australia's research capacity. [ + ]

Researchers at RTI International, in collaboration with The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have developed a lung-on-chip microdevice for laboratory studies of respiratory challenges and therapeutics. [ + ]

Former Mesoblast (ASX:MSB) CFO Jenni Pilcher has joined Alchemia (ASX:ACL), while former Novartis ANZ CFO 

Paul Hodgkinson will fill the vacant position at Mesoblast.

Orthocell's (ASX:OCC) autologous cell therapy Ortho-ATI improved grip strength in chronic tennis elbow patients by an average of 207% at 4.5 years post-treatment.

The inaugural Australian Science Industry Exchange event (ASiX) was held in Melbourne last week, with over 80 of the country's science sector business and technology leaders discussing the state of the industry and seeking to find better ways to do business.

Roche Sequencing and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have announced a collaboration to develop new technologies for targeted epigenomic analysis using DNA sequencing. [ + ]

The inaugural Australian Science Industry Exchange event (ASiX) was held in Melbourne last week, with over 80 of the country's science sector business and technology leaders discussing the state of the industry and seeking to find better ways to do business. [ + ]

The Australian division of life science supplier Merck (Merck Millipore) is moving to a new head office. [ + ]

Laser physicists from the Australian National University (ANU) have found a way to make atomic-force microscope probes 20 times more sensitive. [ + ]

The BioProcessing Network (BPN) is holding its annual conference from 21-23 October at Encore, St Kilda. The meeting will gather together researchers, manufacturers, suppliers and others with an active interest in bioprocessing as it applies to areas such as biotherapeutics, biofuels and food processing. [ + ]

Roche Sequencing and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have announced a two-year collaboration to develop new technologies for targeted epigenomic analysis using DNA sequencing. [ + ]

The federal government's new $476 million Industry Skills Fund is due to commence 1 January 2015 and a consultation has commenced in preparation, which includes webinars, a discussion paper and a digital questionnaire.

Understanding how the human brain works is the not so small task the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function is planning to tackle. [ + ]

Income from Bionomics' (ASX:BNO) licensing deal with Merck for Alzheimer's candidate BNC375 helped the company report its first post-tax operating profit for the last financial year. [ + ]

A partnership between the University of New South Wales and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory will set up a new EMBL Australia node. [ + ]