Professor Edward C Holmes played a significant role in the global scientific response to COVID-19. [ + ]

Researchers manufactured a transparent face shield with intrinsic antimicrobial activity that protects the person and prevents infectious waste. [ + ]

Exercise causes muscles to secrete proteins called myokines into our blood; these myokines can suppress tumour growth. [ + ]

The TGA has approved a total of nine COVID-19 rapid antigen tests, while vaccine booster shots will be available to Australian adults from 8 November. [ + ]

Two individual fellowships, each totalling $1.25 million over five years, are awarded each calendar year. [ + ]

Just in time for World Psoriasis Day, UZH researchers have published a study explaining why common psoriasis drugs show insufficient treatment efficacy. [ + ]

In older individuals, low-protein diets are linked to poor maintenance of brain function. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. [ + ]

Until now, a lobster's age has usually been estimated using its size — but this is inaccurate as individual lobsters grow at different rates. [ + ]

The TGA provisionally approves a booster dose of Pfizer's vaccine for individuals 18 years and older, while advisers to the US FDA recommend the vaccine for children aged 5–11. [ + ]

The results of a landmark trial have shown how bacteria can successfully sterilise and eradicate the invasive, disease-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito. [ + ]

A new study has measured for the first time a link between variations in size of the brain's arteries and the likelihood of a cerebral aneurysm. [ + ]

By modifying the surface of conventional microscope slides at the nanoscale, biological structures and cells take on a striking colour contrast which can be used to detect disease. [ + ]

Inspired by butterfly wings, an international research team has discovered a new way to concentrate light on a chip. [ + ]

The $96 million pilot facility will develop mRNA and RNA drugs and vaccines, in order to better combat disease and save lives. [ + ]

Researchers investigated the efficacy of salivary HPV detection as a biomarker of HPV-driven head and neck cancers. [ + ]