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25.01.2022 A new high-tech vaccine manufacturing facility will soon be developed in Melbourne to help secure Australia's long-term supply of critical health products.

24.01.2022 Metformin could be particularly beneficial for people with type 2 diabetes who are older or looking to become pregnant, as discovered by two separate studies.

24.01.2022 The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted provisional approval to Pfizer Australia for its COVID-19 vaccine, developed in partnership with BioNTech, making it the first COVID-19 vaccine to receive regulatory approval in Australia.

24.01.2022 Each year, ATSE recognises leading lights who make extraordinary contributions to technological science and engineering in Australia.

23.01.2022 Scientists from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and The University of Western Australia (UWA) have set a world record for the most stable transmission of a laser signal through the atmosphere, as described in the journal Nature Communications.

21.01.2022 An international research team led by The University of Melbourne has found that the SMOC1 protein, which is naturally produced by the liver, can decrease blood glucose levels.

21.01.2022 Researchers from The University of Hong Kong have reported a case of COVID-19 reinfection in a 33-year-old man, in news that scientists have broadly deemed disappointing but not surprising.

20.01.2022 Intravacc, a Netherlands-based developer of viral and bacterial vaccines, has published the phase I study results of its vaccine candidate for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) a major cause of lower respiratory tract infections and the most common cold virus in children under the age of five. In general, the virus causes mild complaints; however, infants and the elderly can become seriously ill.

20.01.2022 ClearMate allows a patient to hyperventilate off the alcohol in their system while returning precisely the amount of carbon dioxide to the body to keep it at normal levels in the blood.

19.01.2022 Continued warming of Australia's climate, an increase in extreme fire weather and rising sea levels are highlighted in the latest State of the Climate report.

18.01.2022 Researchers have revealed a significant increase in the prevalence of the median artery in humans since the late 19th century, suggesting that our species is still evolving.

17.01.2022 An international research team has revealed that sea ice across the Southern Ocean played a crucial role in controlling atmospheric carbon dioxide levels during times of past climate change and it could provide a critical resource to improve Earth system models.

15.01.2022 A study led by Ludwig Cancer Research Chicago Co-Director Ralph Weichselbaum and Yang-Xin Fu of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has shown how bacteria in the gut can dull the efficacy of radiotherapy, a treatment received by about half of all cancer patients.

15.01.2022 Researchers have demonstrated an endoscope that combines photoacoustic and fluorescence imaging in a device about the thickness of a human hair.

13.01.2022 Biotech company CSL has signed two separate heads of agreement (HoA) for COVID-19 vaccines should clinical trials prove successful: one with the Australian Government for the supply of 51 million doses of University of Queensland (UQ) vaccine candidate V451 and another with AstraZeneca to manufacture University of Oxford candidate AZD1222.

11.01.2022 The Australian Government has joined the COVAX facility, enabling the purchase of COVID-19 vaccine doses as they become available.

10.01.2022 Singaporean scientists have shown that bringing together two magnets, so that they pinch and apply pressure to a fold of skin, leads to short-term changes in the skin barrier and specifically the formation of ‘micropores’ underneath its surface. Measuring about 3 m in area, these micropores allow drugs applied on the surface of the skin to diffuse through it more easily.

10.01.2022 Preclinical testing of The University of Queensland’s (UQ) COVID-19 vaccine has produced positive indications about its potential effectiveness and manufacturability.

10.01.2022 The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) has provided a $3 million grant to establish a custom-built microscopy centre to image the ‘dark space’ of cancerimmune interactions, enabling new advances in cancer research.

07.01.2022 Biotechnology company Novavax has announced that NVX-CoV2373, its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, has demonstrated a vaccine efficacy of 89.3% in a Phase 3 clinical trial conducted in the UK, meeting the primary endpoint of the trial. The company also announced promising results of its Phase 2b study conducted in South Africa.

05.01.2022 Engineers at Monash University have developed technology that should help industry identify and export high-quality graphene cheaper, faster and more accurately than current methods, helping graphene and graphene oxide manufacturers boost the reliability of their supply.

05.01.2022 US researchers have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to produce mosquitoes that are unable to replicate Zika virus and therefore cannot infect humans through biting a novel approach to what the World Health Organization (WHO) has deemed a public health emergency of international concern.

01.01.2022 Testing of commonly available fabric masks has found they significantly reduce the number of aerosolised viruses a wearer could be exposed to.

01.01.2022 Scientists at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have miniaturised the optical components required to cool atoms down to a few thousandths of a degree Celsius above absolute zero the first step in employing them on microchips to drive a new generation of super-accurate atomic clocks, enable navigation without GPS and simulate quantum systems.