A new approach to cancer immunotherapy, which uses one type of immune cell to kill another, provokes a robust anti-tumour immune response. [ + ]

Scientists have discovered how the organic compound hydroquinine can inhibit and kill a germ that causes serious illness or in some cases death. [ + ]

Bringing a new level of control to making long and geometrically interlinked polymer molecules from several different alternating molecular units joined in a controlled sequence. [ + ]

Evident has announced its new APAC headquarters in Singapore and opened entries for its Global Image of the Year Scientific Light Microscopy Award. [ + ]

Researchers developed high-sensitivity spectrometers with high wavelength accuracy, high spectral resolution and broad operation bandwidth. [ + ]

Communication among cells is altered in pregnant women who go on to develop postpartum depression (PPD) after giving birth. [ + ]

An international coalition of researchers has stated that the Earth's vital signs have reached "code red" and that "humanity is unequivocally facing a climate emergency". [ + ]

In a major advance for the treatment of Alzheimer's, Australian scientists have successfully delivered drugs through patient cell models of the human blood–brain barrier. [ + ]

The Australian Academy of Science will lead a new regional presence coordinating scientific engagement in the Asia–Pacific. [ + ]

The WHO has published a catalogue of the 19 fungi that represent the greatest threat to public health. [ + ]

The pursuit of complex models that produce more accurate predictions may not deliver, because more complicated models tend to produce more uncertain estimates. [ + ]

CSIRO is looking to improve safety for everyone working in potentially hazardous environments with a new training package that uses virtual reality to simulate risk scenarios. [ + ]

The research may explain several behavioural differences in women who smoke — including why they are more resistant than men to quitting smoking. [ + ]

Researchers have developed a method to detect build-up of amyloid β in the brain, a characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, from biomarkers in blood samples. [ + ]

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) can 'switch off' a protein known as MHC class II, causing the leukaemia to become invisible to the immune system. [ + ]