The 22nd Annual International Light Scattering Colloquium will be held at the Four Seasons Biltmore Resort in Santa Barbara, California.

A new miniature frog species or ‘toadlet’ has been discovered.

Clinical trials have successfully administered the compound AVI-4658, designed to restore dystrophin expression in participants with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Macquarie University PhD student Dimitri Douchin has helped discover a new planetary nebula in our Milky Way.

CSIRO’s Dr Lin-Fa Wang works in the depths of a national biosecurity facility jam-packed with some of the planet’s nastier viruses that call bats home. [ + ]

Over the last 15 years, Dr Lin-Fa Wang ‘s group has quadrupled in size and now works on many different aspects of bat biology. [ + ]

CSIRO's Dr Lin-Fa Wang is investigating viruses in bats in the hope of finding insights into how they spread to humans. [ + ]

The University of Queensland has entered into an agreement with technology specialist Siemens to install a powerful MRI system.

The Institute for Molecular Biosciences' Sean Grimmond is the first in Australia to get hands on experience using the next next generation Ion Torrent technology. [ + ]

The Australian Maths Olympiad team have each won a medal at the IMO held in Amsterdam.

A discovery by scientists at Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics opens the possibility of a new treatment for viruses that cause inflammation, such as Ross River virus and Dengue Fever. [ + ]

Researchers from Sydney and the UK are partnering to understand why malaria can be fatal to some but milder in others. [ + ]

The Australian Institute for Commercialisation will be moving premises on 1 August 2011.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has presented Dr Judit Villen with the ASMS 2011 Research Award.

Coridon and Ohio State University have begun collaborating on testing Coridon’s DNA vaccine for Epstein Barr Virus for the prevention of lymphoproliferative disease. [ + ]