Organisations including Cooperative Research Australia, ATSE and the Australian Academy of Science hope to work with the new ministry to advance a bold new innovation agenda. [ + ]

A new preclinical study highlights the importance of controlling new fat-cell formation to address age-related obesity. [ + ]

Researchers have discovered a simple, affordable way to make dynamically adjustable water-based lenses that have a wide variety of potential future applications — from classrooms and research labs to cameras and even wearable gadgets. [ + ]

A drug that is already FDA-approved for treating inflammatory conditions may help reduce both alcohol intake and pain sensitivity — two issues that commonly co-occur with alcohol use disorder. [ + ]

The test has the potential to alleviate the uncertainty faced by patients and clinicians, offering a reliable and rapid method to identify Parkinson's disease in its earliest stages. [ + ]

The genome-wide association study (GWAS) uncovered over 900 genetic associations, more than 500 of which had never been reported before. [ + ]

Monash University researchers have developed a water filtration membrane that effectively removes small PFAS molecules, overcoming a significant challenge faced by conventional water filters. [ + ]

US researchers have conducted a cell-by-cell analysis of brain tissue from individuals with Tourette syndrome, pinpointing exactly which cells are perturbed and how they malfunction. [ + ]

The pain-on-a-chip concept has the potential to provide a biosensor platform for a minimally invasive and objective analysis method to discriminate between chronic pain subtypes. [ + ]

Researchers have engineered a way to fool the immune system into accepting neural grafts as part of the body, rather than attacking them as foreign objects. [ + ]

Researchers have successfully imaged living cells inside whole organs across volumes the size of a sugar cube. [ + ]

Researchers have discovered that the blood vessels at the back of the eye — called retinal microvasculature — can show early signs someone is at risk of developing dementia. [ + ]

Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic has allocated $158 million to three new Cooperative Research Centres: the SMART CRC, Additive Manufacturing CRC and Care Economy CRC. [ + ]

Pancreatic cancer hijacks a molecule known for regulating physiological processes, such as food intake and energy balance, and uses it to promote its own spread. [ + ]

In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists have utilised a highly specialised microscope. [ + ]