Scientia Professor of Physics Michelle Simmons, from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), has been elected as a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is one of only 10 Australians to have received such an honour. [ + ]

The most comprehensive export survey of its type, Australia's International Business Survey, was conducted to understand and highlight the major issues facing exporters. [ + ]

Monash University has been awarded almost $10 million to develop new treatments for life-threatening infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. [ + ]

Analytica (ASX:ALT) is raising up to $3m through a placement and entitlement offer to help accelerate its marketing efforts for female urinary incontinence treatment device PeriCoach. [ + ]

Research led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has found that the bacterium that causes whooping cough, Bordetella pertussis, has changed - most likely in response to the vaccine used to prevent the disease. [ + ]

The University of Waikato has signed an agreement with the Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, to establish a coastal biotechnology research centre. With bases in both Tauranga and China, the China-New Zealand Coastal Biotechnology Joint Research Centre would aim to integrate China and New Zealand's coastal biotechnology research experts. [ + ]

A US research team has discovered that coupling commercially available spectral X-ray detectors with a specialised algorithm can improve the detection of uranium and plutonium in small, layered objects such as baggage. [ + ]

Medical technology company GE Healthcare has signed a partnership agreement with the University of Otago's Centre for Bioengineering & Nanomedicine to work together on medical imaging technology projects. [ + ]

CNS has secured a deal to provide clinical and regulatory services for a Nuvilex pancreatic cancer treatment candidate, including planning for an Australian phase IIb trial. [ + ]

Funding is available for translational research in prostate cancer. [ + ]

The University of Queensland's (UQ) pitch drop experiment marked a milestone last week as the ninth drop of pitch slowly collided with the eighth drop in the bottom of the beaker. [ + ]

ResMed (ASX:RMD) has added a new nasal mask and a full-face mask to its AirFit line of sleep-disordered breathing therapy devices. [ + ]

AusBiotech is preparing a submission following the Senate's referral of an inquiry into Australia's innovation system to the Senate Economics References Committee for inquiry and report. [ + ]

A different way of administering chloroquine could see its renewed use to treat malaria. [ + ]

Drawbridge Pharmaceuticals announced that anaesthesia candidate Phaxan outperformed the SOC propofol during the first in-human trial comparing the two drugs. [ + ]