The intersection of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the pharmaceutical industry has opened up new possibilities for enhanced inventory management and authentication. [ + ]

A new approach to healing muscle injury employs an injectable tissue prosthesis in the form of conductive hydrogels combined with a robot-assisted rehabilitation system. [ + ]

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA. [ + ]

Scientists have developed a lab-made hydrogel that behaves like natural tissue, with a number of qualities that have implications for medical, food and manufacturing technology. [ + ]

Researchers have developed a new class of so-called heterogeneous geminal-atom catalysts for more environmentally friendly pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. [ + ]

Researchers have found that measuring circulating tumour DNA in melanoma patients may lead to alternative treatment options and better outcomes. [ + ]

Understanding how pathogens replicate, infect cells and evade the immune system may pave the way to treatments for infectious diseases. [ + ]

Scientists found that 71 of the 162 ice shelves surrounding Antarctica have reduced in volume over 25 years from 1997 to 2021, with a net release of 7.5 trillion tonnes of meltwater into the oceans. [ + ]

Called Airbender, the wearable upper limb prosthetic is designed to be affordable, comfortable and intuitive for young users. [ + ]

Scientists have found the most ancient and distant blast of cosmic radio waves to date, located so far away that its light took eight billion years to reach Earth. [ + ]

Australian companies involved in any lab work have to see to it that their lab scrubs meet industry standards and regulations to be considered safe, foolproof and effective. [ + ]

When ANP32A gene-edited chickens were exposed to a normal dose of the H9N2-UDL strain of avian influenza virus, nine out of 10 birds remained uninfected. [ + ]

A novel liquid biopsy test may help determine which patients with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread beyond the lungs are most likely to benefit from targeted, high-dose radiation. [ + ]

Scientists have restored the nerve cell connections in the brain that are destroyed by Alzheimer's, while others have found a connection between the health of blood vessels and development of the disease. [ + ]

UK researchers have brought clarity to the longstanding question of how starch granules form in the seeds of Triticeae crops — wheat, barley and rye. [ + ]