Bionomics Chief Business Officer Tony Colasin will lead corporate development for the company, including business development and strategic opportunities. [ + ]

Google Australia has pledged to provide three Australian not-for-profits with $1 million in cash grants, which will be used to help promote STEM to underrepresented students such as girls, Indigenous Australians and those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. [ + ]

As part of National Science Week, citizen scientists are being asked to help in classifying thousands of galaxies located 800 million to 4 billion light years away. [ + ]

Sleep disorder device supplier ResMed has signed a definitive agreement to acquire its Chinese counterpart Curative Medical. [ + ]

Australia is in the position to secure a globally competitive, locally based advanced manufacturing sector, according to CSL CFO Gordon Naylor. [ + ]

The ESCMID is imploring global healthcare professionals and bodies to take a more active role in the growing problem of fungal resistance. The society believes that fungal infections are neglected worldwide, despite the fact that over 300 million people of all ages suffer from a serious fungal infection every year. [ + ]

ANSTO has welcomed the opening of its new electron microscopy facility by the Hon Karen Andrews, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Science. [ + ]

AXT has completed the installation of a TESCAN LYRA focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope at Curtin University, Perth, as part of the National Resource Sciences Precinct's Advanced Resource Characterisation Facility. [ + ]

Researchers have been able to produce accurate DNA profiles from trace amounts of human hairs at a higher success rate than what is typically achieved. [ + ]

St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research has discovered a warning system in cells that senses foreign RNA and activates an immune response in order to combat incoming infections. [ + ]

Applied Rigaku Technologies has published a new method for the analysis of lead-zinc ore using the empirical calibration technique. The method demonstrates the use of the Rigaku NEX CG benchtop EDXRF analyser in the trace elemental analysis of ores. [ + ]

Ian Macfarlane has opened the National Geosequestration Laboratory, a $48.4 million facility which is set to play a major role in advancing research for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in Australia. [ + ]

The Photon Control Custom Spectrometer Builder is a specialised web tool that will help users make an informed spectrometer purchasing decision in seven simple steps. [ + ]

Life science company Sigma-Aldrich has received ISO 13485 certification for expanded quality assurance capabilities at its Dekalb and Barton facilities located in St Louis, USA. [ + ]

The global market for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) therapeutics will rise in value from $23.5 billion in 2014 to around $39 billion by 2021, GBI Research has estimated. [ + ]