Optiscan recruiting distributors in US, Europe and Asia for microscopes [ + ]

Australian scientists to study iPS cells from Thompson lab. [ + ]

A single organ may contain more than one type of adult stem cell — a discovery that complicates prospects for using stem cells as a treatment for disease, according to a study by Nobel Laureate Prof Mario Capecchi.

Stem Cell Sciences adds mouse Nanog methods to IP portfolio [ + ]

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects scheme, Round 2, for funding in 2008 has resulted in funding for 208 of the 487 proposals. A hair examination protocol for forensic scientists is just one of the successful projects.

US researchers have uncovered critical molecular events that undermine the reprogramming of somatic human cells back to a pluripotent state.

The Sydney Project aims to have human embryonic stem cells in clinical trials to treat type 1 diabetes in four years. [ + ]

Changes are afoot in the US to reform its patent law, from ‘first to invent’ to ‘first to patent’. [ + ]

Climate change doesn't come from the atmosphere alone. Ocean currents and temperatures have significant effects and some marine animals thrive when its cold.

Researchers in the US have produced the first sequence-based map of large-scale structural variation across the human genome.

Hagfish may be ferociously ugly little creatures, but they can teach us much about the evolution of the vertebrate eye. [ + ]

There is bad news and good news for the owners of ageing human brains. [ + ]

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.