A new technique that can distinguish between closely related strains of bacteria could lead to improved infection diagnosis. [ + ]

Physicist Dr Daniel Creedon was yesterday awarded the prestigious federal government National Measurement Institute (NMI) Prize at a ceremony in Sydney, where he gave a seminar on his award-winning work. Dr Creedon was announced as the winner of the prize on World Metrology Day earlier this year. [ + ]

Researchers from James Cook University (JCU), who recently developed a highly sensitive and rapid multiplex diagnostic test for melioidosis, have launched a crowd funding campaign to help make their test a reality. [ + ]

The Synchrotron Light Source Australia (SLSA) Board today announced the appointment of Professor Andrew Peele as Director of the Australian Synchrotron. Professor Peele has held the role on an interim basis since the beginning of 2013, overseeing the day-to-day delivery of world-class science at the facility. [ + ]

Patrys has been granted a second Australian patent - its seventh globally - covering anticancer antibody PAT-SM6. [ + ]

The government plans to remove access to the R&D tax incentive for big business.  [ + ]

AusBiotech is urging the Coalition government to deliver on its pro-business rhetoric and pass the R&D Tax Incentive's quarterly payments legislation. The much-anticipated measure has been earmarked as "further consultation required" in Treasurer Joe Hockey's plan to deal with the backlog of unlegislated tax measures: 'Restoring Integrity in the Australian Tax System'. [ + ]

Pharmaceutical manufacturing company IDT Australia (ASX:IDT) has filed the first of a series of planned marketing applications for generic drugs, with a US filing for chemotherapy temozolomide. [ + ]

The overriding drive for protein in our diet could play a key role in the global obesity epidemic. [ + ]

Scientists at the University of Melbourne's School of Physics have built a rotating anode source that turns ordinary X-rays into super X-rays, thus developing the world's most powerful X-ray machine. [ + ]

Novogen (ASX:NRT) has teamed with Genea biocells to test a line of compounds which are effective against cancer stem cells in a range of genetic and degenerative disorders. [ + ]

Applications are open for funding and postgraduate scholarships from Sugar Research Australia (SRA) to conduct research that supports the Australian sugar cane industry. [ + ]

Southern Cross University (SCU) has received $1.21 million in funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). This follows Minister for Education Christopher Pyne's announcement that the council will provide $522 million to fund 1177 research projects around Australia. [ + ]

UK scientists have developed tiny self-assembling transport networks, powered by nanoscale motors and controlled by DNA. The system can construct its own network of tracks spanning tens of micrometres in length, transport cargo across the network and even dismantle the tracks. [ + ]

Drug potential from Great Barrier Reef sea sponges ready for commercial development. [ + ]