WR Grace & Co has announced that the Australian Patent Office has granted a patent related to the company's Reveleris flash chromatography system. The patent concerns the use of evaporative light scattering detection (ELSD) with flash chromatography, which is a key component of the Reveleris flash chromatography system. [ + ]

Macquarie University researchers, leading an international collaboration, have invented of a new generation of nanocrystals called ‘τ-Dots’. These can be coded in the newly discovered optical dimension of time in addition to colours. [ + ]

Healthcare group Admedus (formerly Allied Healthcare) has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire an established manufacturing site from Genzyme Australasia, a Sanofi company. Admedus purchased the site to facilitate scaled-up production of its regenerative tissue product CardioCel. [ + ]

A team working at the SACLA X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) in Japan has succeeded in generating ultrabright two-colour X-ray laser pulses, for the first time in the hard X-ray region. [ + ]

As we head into Christmas and the New Year, the industry's ASX-listed market capitalisation sits just over $50 billion and there are signs that the IPO market is at last awakening from hibernation. The year has proven to be another solid period for the Australian biotechnology industry and for AusBiotech. During this time, AusBiotech was steadfast in its advocacy and active in its representation and support of the industry. [ + ]

Cambridge Consultants and Diagnostics For All are working together to demonstrate a mobile phone application that can read a simple test for whether a child has been immunised. [ + ]

As Christmas celebrations sneak around the corner, we write our final newsletter for the year. [ + ]

Avita Medical (ASX:AVH) has appointed interim replacements for its CEO and chairman and has started reviewing its remuneration policy following last month's 'first strike' vote. [ + ]

The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has accepted Bronchitol for use by the nation's National Health Service as an adjunct therapy in adult cystic fibrosis patients. [ + ]

Bowel cancer research has received a $15 million gift. [ + ]

European researchers have found that, by modifying simple imaging devices into mini microscopes, they can prevent the misdiagnosis of parasitic infections - particularly in resource-deficient areas where such infections are common. [ + ]

An international research team has discovered more than 30 new - and so far unclassified - species of Antarctic marine life. After a lengthy categorisation period, their findings have been published in the journal Continental Shelf Research. [ + ]

Mexican entrepreneurs have developed a system capable of using vehicular flow to generate electric energy. This development has the potentiality to produce sufficient electricity to power up a household through a device that 'catches' the force of the moving cars. [ + ]

Starpharma (ASX:SPL) CFO Nigel Baade will take on the responsibilities of company secretary Ben Rogers who is retiring, effective from Friday. [ + ]

Wyatt Technology has published an application note highlighting a study on the complex interactions between proteins and how they modulate the rotational direction of bacteria flagella. The application note highlights the benefit of using composition-gradient multi-angle static light scattering (CG-MALS) to confirm the specific binding sites of the protein. [ + ]