Shares down over 50% after the FDA requests more information on safety and efficacy from QRxPharma on its MoxDuo IR before granting regulatory approval. [ + ]

As anyone who works with them will tell you, it is impossible to know everything about technical gases off by heart. But now there is no need to: iGASES, the new app from Witt for iPhone, iPad and Android devices, answers your questions, even interactively. [ + ]

Register in the next four days (by 30 June) for the industry event of the year and save $250 with early bird rates. [ + ]

From 15 April 2013 patents will be significantly harder to secure in Australia. We look at the implications of the Raising the Bar bill on Australian life science organisations. [ + ]

A University of Western Sydney student’s high-calibre chemistry experiments, which may lead to better cancer detection, have been recognised by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. [ + ]

BioDiem (ASX:BDM) and ANU have finalised the terms of the exclusive licensing deal covering a vaccine technology for diseases such as dengue fever. [ + ]

CogState (ASX:CGS) has signed the first of a planned series of licensing deals to have its tests sold to GPs for the detection of neurodegenerative conditions. [ + ]

Australian researchers will continue to undertake vital research - in areas such as health, manufacturing and food security - in Australia thanks to a new program to manage researcher access to the Australian Synchrotron. [ + ]

The discovery that a cancer drug is hiding in sunflower seeds has won a University of Queensland (UQ) plant scientist a national award. [ + ]

Lions Eye Institute (LEI) researcher Alex Hewitt is one of eight international recipients of a prestigious 2012 Alcon Research Institute (ARI) Young Investigator Grant. The grant is worth $50,000 and will allow Dr Hewitt to further his research into glaucoma genetics. [ + ]

An international collaboration involving the development of the next generation of smart medicines in Brisbane has received a boost, with more than $1 million in state government funding. [ + ]

Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA) has secured a deal to launch a new therapy for the colostrum difficile “superbug” in Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

Providing opportunities for women in science is crucial to ensure the future productivity and global competitiveness of the country, the Minister for Science and Research, Senator Chris Evans, told a newly created bipartisan support group at an event on 20 June. [ + ]

Nobel Laureate and molecular biologist Professor Elizabeth Blackburn was awarded the Curtin Medal for Excellence in Medical Research at The Australian National University this morning. [ + ]

TenasiTech, a materials science start-up company from UniQuest, based on University of Queensland research, has secured $1.4 million in grants and equity capital from the Queensland Government and Uniseed. [ + ]