Cancer Therapeutics has revealed positive preclinical results from a trial of CTx-294886 and that it has produced a new small molecule screening platform. [ + ]

Several biotech and pharmaceutical industry associations have banded together to call for the recent TGA fee hike to be wound back. [ + ]

Last night’s announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson, or ‘God particle’, will collide with art and society on Sunday 8 July. ‘Colliding Ideas: Art, Society and Physics’ is a free public symposium, to be held at RMIT University in Central Melbourne from noon-5 pm. [ + ]

At a seminar held at CERN yesterday as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long-sought Higgs particle. [ + ]

Sirtex Medical (ASX:SRX) recorded strong quarterly and full-year growth for dose sales of its SIR-Spheres targeted radioactive liver cancer treatments. [ + ]

Starpharma (ASX:SPL) is researching expanding its dendrimer nanotechnology platform to a wide range of drug classes besides its initial focus on chemotherapeutics. [ + ]

QRxPharma will meet with the FDA in August to discuss whether more trials of MoxDuo IR are required or existing data reanalysed, but CEO John Holaday is confident its application is “more than adequate for approval”. [ + ]

Professor Ryan Lister, an expert in the use of advanced DNA sequencing technologies and computational biology to understand how complex biological systems work, has been appointed to The University of Western Australia (UWA). [ + ]

Allied Healthcare Group (ASX:AHZ) and the CSIRO have joined forces to develop tissue engineering technologies with the potential to aid tissue repair in the heart. [ + ]

The new financial year has heralded the launch of the application form for the registration of R&D activities under the new R&D Tax Incentive, which opened on 1 July 2012. [ + ]

Some coral reef fish may be better prepared to cope with rising CO₂ in the world’s oceans - thanks to their parents. Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) have reported encouraging new findings that some fish may be less vulnerable to high CO₂ and an acidifying ocean than previously feared. [ + ]

Scientists say they have assembled more completely the string of genetic letters that could control how well parrots learn to imitate their owners and other sounds. [ + ]

Geomicrobiology, environmental biogeochemistry, mineralogy, nanogeoscience, metagenomics, microbial community ecology and evolution. These are but some of the research interests of Professor Jill Banfield. [ + ]

Brisbane's CBio (ASX:CBZ) plans to merge with US-based Inveseon to create new inflammatory disease focused biotech, Invion. [ + ]

pSivida (ASX:PVA) has signed up the first patient for an investigator-sponsored trial of its inserts and ILUVIEN drug in eye disease posterior uveitis. [ + ]