Managing endangered fish stocks, improving our personal security online and discovering how migration is changing the financial services industry labour market are amongst 55 Victorian university research projects that have received $14.45m in Australian Government Linkage Projects funding.

Queensland universities’ research projects have received a boost of $16.9m from the Australian Government. The universities are partnering with governments and industry to help stop cyberbullying, better understand the Great Barrier Reef and increase pre-flood warning times.

Australian Government research funding to the Northern Territory will help transform child protection services and improve safety for vulnerable Indigenous children.

Research by NSW universities into the likely impacts from the cane toad’s southern march, the development of needle-free vaccinations and reducing the toxic fumes that occur after blasting in mines will benefit from $19.7m in Australian Government funding.

$4m in funding will enable ACT universities to partner with industry and governments to reduce foodborne disease, make genetically modified (GM) and non-GM canola more drought tolerant and save the Grassland earless dragon from extinction.

Tasmanian researchers have received $815,000 in Australian Government funding for research projects, including one finding better ways to generate energy from ocean waves.

A fund created in memory of a bright, young Western Australian scientist is encouraging WA regional high school students to consider a career in science.

Professor Peter Leedman's team at the Western Australian Medical Research Institute (WAIMR) has discovered a microRNA molecule with remarkable promise as a therapy for cancers of epithelial tissues. [ + ]

The Human Microbiome Project (HMP) is now releasing reads and assembled sequences from whole metagenome shotgun sequencing of 690 microbiomes and ~72 million reads from targeted 16S sequencing of 5034 microbiomes from healthy human subjects via the HMP Data Analysis and Coordination Center (DACC) at the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Australian scientific innovation is being promoted to Europe by Professor Tanya Monro as part of the Australian Academy of Science Speakers Series.

Australian inventions can be accessed online through AusPat, a database of patent records dating back to the first patent issued under Commonweath legistration.

Paul Verma runs one of the most advanced stem cell labs in Australia and is exploring the vast potential of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). [ + ]

Boeing has named CSIRO as a Supplier of the Year at an awards ceremony in Seattle.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has expanded its consumables offering for microbiology, life science and clinical laboratories through its acquisition of Sterilin.

The government has committed to allocating $278 million over five years to Commercialisation Australia, with some expected to flow to biotechs. [ + ]