Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) has concluded that Australia is quite good at coming up with clever ideas but not so good at transferring them into tangible outcomes. [ + ]

Biotron has completed its HIV-1 animal trial of drug candidate BIT225, announcing positive results which caused the company's share prices to rise by almost 15%. [ + ]

Researchers from the University of Wollongong have demonstrated that a coating of a single-atom thickness can protect metals from corrosion. [ + ]

Researchers have discovered the first ever blood biomarker for multiple sclerosis (MS), a debilitating disorder of the central nervous system that is caused by the immune system attacking the body. [ + ]

The Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) consortium has uncovered 83 new DNA changes that affect human height. [ + ]

The $950,000 NSW Smart Sensing Network brings together smart sensing expertise in academia, industry and government to develop a collaborative and innovative network that is expected to deliver economic and social benefits for NSW. [ + ]

HCF has conducted a survey investigating the future of medicine, revealing that the Australian population is mostly comfortable with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care but less sure about genetic medicine. [ + ]

German scientists have been investigating the true age of 49 Lib, a relatively bright star in the southern sky, which was until recently believed to be 2.3 billion years old. [ + ]

Researchers led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have synthesised a library of more than 330,000 reference peptides, representing essentially all canonical proteins of the human proteome. [ + ]

Scientists from La Trobe University and biotechnology company AdAlta have created a humanised version of an antibody found in Wobbegong sharks. [ + ]

The Australian Government has announced plans to open an office for CSIRO in the United States. [ + ]

British researchers have found a way to produce a stable fragment of poliovirus, which could enable safer production of vaccines. [ + ]

Australian researchers have found that a naturally occurring molecule in the brain may hold the key to stopping the progression of Parkinson's disease. [ + ]

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has announced a three-year, $6.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand and accelerate the development of advanced sorghum phenotyping and breeding technologies. [ + ]

Their brains may be smaller than the head of a pin, but ants are excellent navigators that use celestial and terrestrial cues to memorise their paths. [ + ]