The CEO of AusBiotech, Dr Anna Lavelle, will hand over leadership of the organisation after more than 11 years of service to the Australian biotechnology industry. [ + ]

Seventy-seven women from around the world have been selected to take part in Homeward Bound, said to be the world's largest all-female expedition to Antarctica. [ + ]

Physicists have used steerable 'optical tweezers' to split minute clouds of ultracold atoms and slowly smash them together to directly observe a key theoretical principle of quantum mechanics — the Pauli exclusion principle. [ + ]

Analytica has been granted FDA clearance for its PeriCoach medical device, previously available in the US by prescription only, to be sold over the counter. [ + ]

Researchers have discovered that environmental DNA monitoring, a specialised technique that can detect DNA that fish release into their environment through skin cells or faeces, is even more effective than conventional monitoring techniques such as trapping. [ + ]

Singaporean scientists have discovered a class of small RNA molecules, known as oncomiRs, which are responsible for fuelling lung cancer. [ + ]

The Compounds Australia Structure PoRtal (CASPeR) is a newly released online portal providing access to the data of more than 50,000 different compounds and samples, linking Australian researchers in a way that has not been possible previously. [ + ]

Regenerative medicine company Orthocell has received ethics approval to conduct a study comparing surgery for severe tennis elbow to the company's minimally invasive cell therapy Ortho-ATI injection. [ + ]

Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have shown that the malaria parasite cannot penetrate a human red blood cell when key proteins are deleted. [ + ]

The Australian Institute of Medical Scientists (AIMS) has announced the finalists of the inaugural AIMS Medical Science Awards for Queensland. [ + ]

The University of Canberra and Cann Pharmaceutical are teaming up on a million-dollar, medical-grade cannabis therapy trial for melanoma patients. [ + ]

Scientists have improved the performance of tiny lasers by adding impurities, leading to a 100-fold improvement in the amount of light emitted from the lasers. [ + ]

A $10 million biopharmaceutical centre will be established at The University of Queensland to train the next generation of scientists and enhance Australia's capabilities in the pharmaceutical sector. [ + ]

The Sydney Science Festival will be held for the second time from 11–21 August 2016, featuring an array of science superstars headlining events across Sydney. [ + ]

Curtin University alumnus Mark Zammit has led the development of a theoretical model to forecast the fundamental chemical reactions involving molecular hydrogen, which has remained largely unpredicted and unsolved by scientists for many decades. [ + ]