Pharmaceutical company Merck has announced a collaboration with BioTek Instruments and accreditation for the quality control of dehydrated culture media tested at its Microbiology Quality Control Laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany. [ + ]

The $150 million Sydney Nanoscience Hub was officially opened as part of a two-day conference on the theme of nanoscale science and technology. [ + ]

The TGA's special access scheme has granted Dimerix the right to continue supplying propagermanium to participants in its DMX-200 clinical trial, upon clinician approval and participant agreement. [ + ]

Scientists have discovered that a protein called IL-33 can reverse Alzheimer's disease-like pathology and cognitive decline in mice, giving hope to the 65 million people who are projected to develop the disease by 2030. [ + ]

The Swiss Polar Institute is organising a major project: the first scientific expedition to fully sail around Antarctica. [ + ]

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang have announced a $100 million innovation partnership that will see a new science and technology precinct established at UNSW. [ + ]

Researchers, science leaders and science journalists are encouraged to enter the 2016 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes before the close of entries on 6 May. [ + ]

The Department of Education and Training will co-fund the expansion of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute's research and higher education training programs. [ + ]

Researchers have developed a 'sheet camera' that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that cannot be taken with one or more conventional cameras. [ + ]

Scientists have discovered that social insects such as ants, bees and wasps have a genetic 'super switch' that designates both their gender and their status as either a queen or worker. [ + ]

An expert in the relationship between chronic inflammation and the development of cancers will be leading a new research laboratory collaboration between South Australia's Centre for Cancer Biology and Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research. [ + ]

Innate Immunotherapeutics has closed enrolment in its Phase 2B efficacy trial of MIS416 in patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, having this week exceeded the original recruitment target of 90 subjects. [ + ]

University of Sydney spin-off company Gelion has secured an $11 million investment in its plan to make commercially viable, nanostructured, gel-based batteries. [ + ]

A recently discovered genetic mechanism allowing bacteria to develop and transfer resistance to colistin — one of the last-resort antibiotics — has been present in countries across the world for more than a decade, according to presenters at ECCMID 2016. [ + ]

The first ever AIMS Queensland & Tropical Division Annual Awards for Excellence in Medical Science will recognise and celebrate the excellence of people working in the medical science profession. [ + ]