Andrew French's team at Stemagen in the US claims it has succeeded where all others have so far failed - producing the first cloned human embryo from an adult fibroblast using SCNT. [ + ]

All sorts of scientists and research institutions were involved in the development of Speedo's record-toppling swimsuit.

Scientists have identified two proteins that significantly increase the ability of disease-causing bacteria to resist some classes of antibiotics.

Mesenchymal stem cells are being trialled as a potential treatment for graft-versus-host disease, a common complication of bone marrow transplantation. [ + ]

Tom Gonda has taken a robotic approach to functional genomics. [ + ]

It's not the $1000 genome just yet, but Applied Biosystems says it's getting there. [ + ]

E. coli caught on film getting a little cell-on-cell action. [ + ]

One of the criticisms of the new Rudd Government has been about the amount of reviews and inquiries it has ordered since its election four months ago. [ + ]

A small audience of the general public listened to two of Australia's most prominent scientists discuss how the economic costs of trying to reach the 2050 carbon reduction targets of 60% would come at a very small cost to the wider community

Russian researchers have discovered a novel way to generate photocurrent by using proteins found in the sensory and energy-storing systems of photosynthetic bacteria

An automated cancer stem cell screening facility has officially opened at the QBI. [ + ]

Packaging siRNA in a liposome improves delivery to tumours. [ + ]

Peter Klinken and his team are studying key decision makers in blood cell differentiation and leukaemia. [ + ]

RNA microarray chip technology developed by the University of Queensland licensed to Invitrogen. [ + ]

US scientists have engineered a transparent zebrafish - nicknamed Caspar - to view its internal organs and observe tumour metastasis and stem cell engraftment. [ + ]