OncoRes Medical, established to develop an imaging tool to improve the outcome of breast cancer surgery, will receive up to $6 million of venture capital investment from the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF). [ + ]

Avita Medical has announcement the appointment of Dr Michael Perry as its new CEO, as well as the results of a US pivotal burns trial. [ + ]

MTPConnect Chief Executive Officer Sue MacLeman has been awarded BioMelbourne Network's 2017 Women in Leadership award. [ + ]

Researchers from The Netherlands have developed a glass microchip for ultrafast separation and purification of DNA fragments. [ + ]

Merck has announced further support for Australia's Multiple Sclerosis (MS) community with a new research scholarship to help fund neurology research at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. [ + ]

British intellectual property commercialisation company IP Group has signed agreements with nine Australasian universities to invest $200 million in finding and developing companies involved in disruptive innovation. [ + ]

Nominations have opened for the AusBiotech and Johnson & Johnson Industry Excellence Awards, to be presented at AusBiotech 2017 on 25 October. [ + ]

The Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science has welcomed Emeritus Professor Alan Robson AO CitWA as its new board chair. [ + ]

Australian researchers have taken part in a study seeking to spread the bacteria Wolbachia, which reduces the capacity of insects to transmit viruses, in urban mosquito populations. [ + ]

ANSTO researchers have been using X-ray imaging on the feathers of long-distance migratory seabirds. The results of their study could lead to important new insights into the evolution and health of birds. [ + ]

US researchers have discovered a biochemical signalling process that causes densely packed cancer cells to break away from a tumour and spread the disease elsewhere in the body. [ + ]

UK researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how different genetic mutations cause acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) — one of the most common acute leukaemias in adults. [ + ]

Scientists have created designer viruses that alert the immune system and cause it to send killer cells to help fight cancer. [ + ]

The city of Brisbane has become home to what is claimed to be the world's most advanced genomics sequencer. [ + ]

ANSTO, the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics at the University of Wollongong and the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), Japan, have partnered to deliver advanced cancer treatment, based on carbon ion therapy. [ + ]