Led by physicist Orest Symko, a University of Utah group has turned heat into electricity through sound.

A group of Johns Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering students have developed a rotavirus vaccine for infants that dissolves in the mouth like a popular breath freshener.

Apollo Life Sciences has announced it has successfully delivered a vaccine without needles, by applying it topically to the skin of mice using the company’s transdermal delivery technology. The technology could spell the end of injections for tetanus, flu and many other vaccine, according to Apollo’s CEO, John Priest.

NZ researchers have developed a potential biological solution to prevent lipids being transformed into trans fats. [ + ]

GSK to launch up to five major cancer drugs in next three years. [ + ]

Question time with Professor Richard Boyd. [ + ]

Pharma market to double in value but more needs to be spent on R&D and less on sales and marketing - PwC report. [ + ]

New regulatory target for Fragile X protein identified. [ + ]

BioPharmica intends to offer an IPO on one of its spin-off companies, Cortical Dynamics. [ + ]

Drought-proof wheat lines will be trialled at two sites in Victoria. [ + ]

Australian scientists will tomorrow take delivery of the silicon they will use to redefine the kilogram.

Scientists from NASA, Europe and Australia are expected to visit the Queensland University of Technology's Carseldine campus later this year, at the completion of the southern hemisphere's only microgravity tower.

Nobel Laureate Peter Agre will deliver the Howard Florey Institute's Kenneth Myer Lecture tomorrow night. [ + ]

"World's first" diagnostics company up and running. [ + ]

Clinuvel moves into Phase III for sun intolerance drug earlier than expected. [ + ]