Latest Research And Development News

Marquee Resources has received a $549,122 R&D tax refund, adding non-dilutive cash ahead of planned drilling at its Yindi Lithium and Gold Project in Western Australia. The filing improves near-term financial flexibility but does not disclose the company’s post-refund cash balance or drilling budget.

Resonance Health has signed a 24-month alliance with London-based Image Analysis Group, making its quantitative MRI endpoints orderable across IAG’s global clinical-trial network. The opportunity is potentially significant, but remains uncontracted: two pilot studies come first, with no minimum revenue or volume commitments.

Red Metal’s Sybella project has moved closer to a development decision after heap-leach testing delivered strong rare earth extractions with low impurity levels. The company also reported a $19.17 million FY2026 profit, although most of that result came from the accounting gain tied to its Maronan Metals restructuring.

Cambium Bio has secured firm commitments for a conditional A$7.1 million placement, taking its proposed funding package to A$10.85 million for the pivotal Elate Ocular Phase 3 program. Completion depends on three inter-conditional shareholder resolutions at the company’s expected November AGM.

Basin Energy has secured a three-year research collaboration with James Cook University to investigate improved extraction and recovery of heavy rare earths at its Sybella-Barkly project. The deal carries no cash payment, but JCU will own the resulting project intellectual property and data.

Volt Resources has secured US$5.4 million in fully government-funded support for its US graphite refinery and customer application centre. The award is positive for project funding, but the company’s ASX securities remain suspended as it works with the exchange to satisfy reinstatement requirements.

Lithium Universe has secured selection for a proposed four-year Industry PhD project with Macquarie University and CSIRO to develop microwave-assisted recycling of end-of-life solar panels. The collaboration could strengthen the company’s technology pathway, but its grant, agreement and commercial outcomes remain unconfirmed.

Simble Solutions’ NanoSensor has detected UV-A, UV-B, UV-C and visible wavelengths in initial laboratory testing, moving the platform into formal benchmarking. The result is an encouraging technical step, but commercial progress still depends on performance data, prototypes and customer validation.

ABx Group and its ALCORE subsidiary have received nearly $600,000 in R&D tax offsets, while ALCORE has completed repayment of $2.61 million in unused government grant funds. The company is now awaiting a decision on a separate Industry Growth Program application worth up to $5 million.

Great Dirt Resources has identified 24 priority manganese targets in New South Wales and confirmed rock-chip grades of up to 51.8% manganese. The exploration progress came alongside a $19.1 million FY2026 loss, largely caused by a non-cash share-based payments expense, while cash rose to $3.81 million.

Greenvale Energy is expanding the final phase of Alpha Test Program 7 after Technix failed to produce a compliant C-170 paving-grade binder. SAMI Bitumen Technologies will now test conventional bitumen blending and additive-based formulations, with results expected from a six to eight-week laboratory program.

Nexalis Therapeutics reports a 52% rise in half-year losses to $1.3 million amid funding facility cancellation and clinical trial suspensions, highlighting ongoing cash flow challenges.