A magnetic resonance network has been established in Queensland to provide researchers with high field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) equipment, including a 900 MHz high-resolution spectrometer – the most powerful of its kind in the southern hemisphere.

Drug delivery company OBJ (ASX:OBJ) claims to have reached an advanced stage in the development of its coin-sized smart drug patch. [ + ]

Mutual fatigue, and the peculiar challenges involved in negotiating with New Zealand's research and health-service agencies, were behind the mediated settlement of the Auckland District Health Board's dispute with Melbourne biotech Genetic Technologies (ASX:GTG) over licensing fees for GTG's non-coding DNA gene testing and mapping technology in NZ. [ + ]

Consumer perception of genetic modification (GM) has a big impact on research and the products produced by the agricultural biotechnology industry, delegates at a BioMelbourne BioBreakfast have heard. [ + ]

Chinese scientists have traced the deaths of around 1500 migratory waterbirds, including geese, gulls and cormorants on isolated Qinghai Lake in western China to a new strain of the lethal H5N1 influenza virus , or 'bird flu'. [ + ]

Australia has cemented its strong relationship in science and technology with China following the signing of two new agreements aimed at enhancing collaboration between the two nations. [ + ]

Virologists have identified the cellular receptor that serves as a portal for infection by deadly bat-borne Henipa viruses, which have caused human deaths in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Bangladesh during the past decade. [ + ]

Cancer therapy developer Meditech (ASX:MTR) has signed a research and development collaboration agreement with Hyalose, a privately-owned US biotech company. [ + ]

Biotechnology Online, a national education resource aimed at making high-school students more aware of the ethics and scientific principles of biotechnology has been updated and relaunched. [ + ]

Prof Alan Cowman and his team at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) are part of an international consortium that has won a US$13 million Grand Challenge in Global Health grant to develop a treatment for malaria. [ + ]

Melbourne's Epitan (ASX:EPT) has raised AUD$3.5 million by way of a private placement, assisted by Mariner Corporate Finance, to institutional investors in Europe and Australia. [ + ]

Peptech Animal Health, a subsidiary of Peptech (ASX:PTD), has been granted an additional United States patent increasing the intellectual property protection of its peptide-based male dog contraceptive implant Suprelorin. [ + ]

Genetic Technologies (ASX:GTG) has settled all of its disputes with the Auckland District Health Board, as the representative of all the New Zealand district health boards plus the New Zealand Blood Service. [ + ]

Steven Burrill's 'state of the industry' address is the star turn at the annual BIO conference in the US. Iain Scott was in the audience for this year's words of wisdom. [ + ]

A new Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-Ray Science will be developed with an AUD$9 million ARC grant over five years, involving Australian and overseas universities and other organisations. [ + ]