Chinese researchers have engineered bendable batteries, suitable for implantation in the human body, which can run on body-inspired liquids such as a normal IV saline solution and a cell-culture medium. [ + ]

Industry group Life Sciences Queensland has appointed Professor Peter Andrews as its new chairman. [ + ]

LBT Innovations, an Australian-listed medical technology company, has signed an agreement with Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) Vascular and Endovascular Services to use LBT's WoundVue prototype device in a clinical trial. [ + ]

Starpharma has announced that its two phase 3 trials of VivaGel BV for prevention of recurrent bacterial vaginosis (rBV) achieved their primary objective, demonstrating statistically significant superiority compared to placebo in preventing rBV based on topline data. [ + ]

Novogen, an ASX-listed oncology drug development company, has announced that its phase I clinical trial of Cantrixil in ovarian cancer is progressing as planned.  [ + ]

Scientists have developed a new technology, tissue nano-transfection (TNT), that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within a patient's own body. [ + ]

The ARC Training Centre for Portable Analytical Separation Technologies (ASTech) has announced La Trobe University as the latest addition to its university nodes. [ + ]

US scientists have used CRISPR to edit human embryos, removing a mutation linked to a heritable heart condition. [ + ]

If the answer is yes, then the SAFETYconnect conference and exhibition in Sydney is a must-attend event for you and your team.  [ + ]

US researchers have discovered that the symptoms of diabetes can be induced by a misfolded form of a pancreatic protein. [ + ]

Targeting healthy cells that have been hijacked by cancer cells could help treat many different types of the disease, according to scientists from the University of Southampton. [ + ]

Public health officials in several US states have identified an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections linked to various clinical, commercial, and college and university teaching microbiology laboratories. [ + ]

IBM's Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) for Sites is designed to streamline the clinical trials management process and maximise operational efficiencies. [ + ]

Scitech has been appointed the authorised distributor in Australia and New Zealand for 3Brain — a Swiss-based company that sells large-scale, high-resolution microelectrode array (MEA) recording platforms for in vitro electrophysiology based on active CMOS circuits. [ + ]

Two new studies have revealed that the gut bacteria composition affects nutritional choices as well as reproduction, using common fruit flies as a model system. [ + ]