Calzada (ASX:CZD) plans an organisational restructuring involving appointing a managing director for its PolyNovo business and recruiting new clinical, regulatory, commercial and manufacturing talent. [ + ]

Advanced Cell Diagnostics, a developer of cell- and tissue-based analysis tools, has announced that its RNAscope RNA in situ hybridisation technology has reached two major milestones: the publication of over 100 peer-reviewed papers featuring the technology and an inventory of over 4000 target probes. [ + ]

It appears that we share more with our friends than we thought, with US researchers discovering that friends who are not biologically related still resemble each other genetically. [ + ]

Brisbane-based start-up DoseMe has picked up $500K in investment funding to expand the market reach and supported medications for its personalised dosage calculation software. [ + ]

The National Stroke Foundation has mapped the impact of stroke across the Australian landscape demonstrating the significant burden of stroke across the country. [ + ]

Phosphagenics (ASX:POH) has launched a $19.3m capital raising to fund trials for its two TPM/opioid patches as the company ramps up its commercialisation efforts. [ + ]

Trajan Scientific and Medical (Trajan) has completed the integration of SGE Analytical Science (SGE) at all major operational centres in Australia, Europe, the US and Asia, with SGE entities registering new Trajan business names. [ + ]

Prima BioMed (ASX:PRR), having centralised its clinical and manufacturing operations in Europe, has promoted its head of European operations to CEO. [ + ]

A new ARC Special Research Initiative for Type 1 juvenile diabetes will see $35 million committed to research into this disease. [ + ]

The Australian Government has announced $35 million to advance research in type 1 (juvenile) diabetes over five years. Funding for the Special Research Initiative for Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes was announced yesterday by Minister for Education Christopher Pyne and Minister for Health Peter Dutton. [ + ]

US researchers believe they have answered the last major question in the effort to understand the pathway that leads to the creation of a bacterium’s cell wall. It is possible that their breakthrough could help lead to the wall's destruction and, with it, the eradication of various types of bacterial infection. [ + ]

Cells subjected to too much stress die, but if the stress isn't too extensive they engage an adaptive mechanism that helps them continue living. [ + ]

US research has found that while women are consistently attracted to studying biology in graduate school, numbers drop dramatically among faculty members. [ + ]

Expressions of interest are invited for a new training program that will arm early-career postgraduate researchers involved in medical technology and product-related research with the necessary entrepreneurial skills to successfully commercialise a medical technology. [ + ]

Fish can fly and a new book by Steve Howell reveals the strange beauty of these little-known creatures. [ + ]