Industry News
Prosthetic device restores and improves decision-making ability in animals
An electronic prosthetic system has been used on monkeys to restore and improve the animals’ decision-making performances. [ + ]
Priceline to stock Cellmid hair growth range
Cellmid (ASX:CDY) subsidiary Advangen has now secured agreements with over 700 pharmacies including Priceline stores to stock its evolis line of hair growth products. [ + ]
AusBiotech makes submission on R&D Tax Incentive quarterly payments
AusBiotech has been advocating for quarterly payments since its first submission on the Tax Credit and is pleased to see the Government responsive to the cash-flow needs of small companies, giving companies the ability to smooth out cash-flow over the year and provide increased predictability. [ + ]
Phylogica looks to recoup $1.9m from R&D Tax Incentive
The first wave of companies is beginning to take advantage of the government’s recently installed R&D Tax Incentive, with Phylogica (ASX:PYC) lodging an application to recoup $1.9 million in research and development costs. [ + ]
Bioniche FY12 loss doubles to $24m
Bioniche (ASX:BNC) said its net loss for FY12 nearly doubled to C$24.1 million ($23.6 million), even as revenue from its animal health division grew by over 10%. [ + ]
Iron ‘blueberries’ may be sign of microbial life on Mars
It’s unlikely anything lives on Mars today, but it may well have done so millions or billions of years past. And it may have left traces of its existence in the geology of the red planet. One such tantalising hint was discovered by the NASA Opportunity Rover, which found small spherical hematite balls, dubbed ‘blueberries,’ in the Martian soil. [ + ]
How brilliant a scientist are you?
A new formula reveals if young scientists will have a brilliant future. [ + ]
UWA discovery helps search for extraterrestrial life on Mars
A discovery at The University of Western Australia (UWA) that microbes helped shape rare spheres of iron-oxide on Earth may aid the newly landed rover Curiosity in its search for the first verifiable signs of extraterrestrial life in similar rocks on Mars. [ + ]
Award winner’s “findings have radically modified climate science”
Australian National University (ANU) researcher Professor Kurt Lambek has won the prestigious 2012 Balzan Prize for Solid Earth Sciences for his work on climate change. [ + ]
Chris Goodnow receives GSK Award for pioneering autoimmune research
Professor Chris Goodnow has received the $80,000 GlaxoSmithKline Award for Research Excellence which will fund his research into a controversial theory on the origin of autoimmune diseases. [ + ]
Phylogica wins cosmetics deal for peptides
Phylogica (ASX:PYC) is continuing its push into the cosmetics market with a deal to license a phylomer peptide with skin repair potential to US-based luxury beauty product company Le Métier de Beauté. [ + ]
CSL wins flu vaccine contract in US
CSL (ASX:CSL) subsidiary CSL Biotherapies has won a flu vaccine contract with the US health department that could be worth as much as US$1.5 billion in the event of a pandemic. [ + ]
Mining text for new insights
A consortium of Dutch companies and universities is going to develop a Text Analysis Tool to systematically analyse worldwide scientific literature for food-related knowledge. This gives access to known and unveils hidden links and will provide new insights and routes for innovations in food. [ + ]
Highly-specialised BD course with subsidy for approved Victorian companies
Global business development (BD) ‘guru,’ Jack Anthony, will visit the AusBiotech 2012 national conference to run a not-to-be-missed professional development course for BD professionals: ‘The Secret Sauce of Deal Making’. [ + ]
Bacteriophage companies AmpliPhi and SPH to merge
US-based AmpliPhi Biosciences and Australia's Special Phage Holdings (SPH) have revealed plans to merge to create a global bacteriophage-based therapy company. [ + ]
