Imagine if you could map out your dream lab on the concrete floor -- and then stock it with whatever you wanted. Susan Williamson spoke with Ian Findlay and his team at Gribbles Molecular Science, who did just that. [ + ]

Even after its R&D budget was cut this week by parent company Fonterra, ViaLactia still has one of the biggest research budgets in New Zealand's biotechnology industry. CEO Colin South discussed his company's research programs with Australian Biotechnology News during a tour sponsored by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise in March. [ + ]

Trading in stolen gold just became a little harder thanks to the work of a researcher at Western Australia's Curtin University. His work in gold fingerprinting is helping stop the black market exchange of gold

Healthcare providers want to know as soon as possible the condition of the patient. Advances in microelectronics, microfluidics and microfabrication are enabling manufacturers to create a new generation of small, portable devices

Her 30-year career has taken her from Sydney to Wales to South Africa, from biology at Wollongong to nuclear science at Australia's only research reactor. And now Prof Helen Garnett has a new challenge, as vice-chancellor of the Northern Territory's new Charles Darwin University. [ + ]

The biocatalysis group at CSIRO Molecular Science, led by Prof Michael Zachariou, has established an impressive pipeline of research and is working towards developing a more sustainable and renewable chemical industry in Australia, writes Susan Williamson. [ + ]

Specialists in surface chemistry have developed a new instrument that is poised to change the way we look at biological samples

Finding ways to 'see' the structure of molecules and viruses isn't easy. Now a revolutionary technique that took decades of work in the physical sciences to develop could help scientists probe right to the heart of biomolecules

Engineer Greg Winter spends his days building, folding chains and working with scaffolds. He's also a librarian. But rather than cataloguing hefty manuscripts, he has viruses create each new inventory for him -- an elegant manufacturing process if ever there was one. [ + ]

Water is one of the most important raw materials in the production process. Precise, quantitative data on the water content of solids is of major significance both in production and in the development of new products

The toxicity of trace elements in the environment is in many cases dependent on the chemical form in which they occur. Total element concentrations no longer provide sufficient information to allow risk-based toxicity assessments

Monday is M-Day for Victoria: will the Bracks government end its 12-month, voluntary moratorium on commercial cropping of genetically modified canola, imposed in May last year? [ + ]

An Australian world-first in optical fibre technology has opened the way for a major advance in medical imaging inside the human body, as well as personal computers that run on light

An old environmental monitoring and control chamber system has been replaced with a FieldPoint system that achieves reliable controlled environmental conditions

Mawson Lakes Development in Adelaide has teamed with University of South Australia researchers and designers, and Street and Park Furniture to create innovative solar lighting that saves almost enough energy to light eight average houses for an entire year.