Scientist-turned-financier Dr Kevin Healey is one of an elite group which has used its life science credentials as a springboard to make a splash as venture capitalists. [ + ]

Queensland is cooking up a thriving biotech sector by successfully blending half a dozen hard-to-find ingredients. [ + ]

Kate Parker helped nurture Invest Australia through its initial growth spurt 18 months ago. Now with the Commonwealth government agency growing again, restructuring and on the brink of becoming independent, Parker is leaving. [ + ]

Cash-strapped biotech startups are increasingly rewarding their staff with shares in the company. [ + ]

One of the spin-offs of Australia's burgeoning biotech sector is an increasingly competitive recruitment sector. [ + ]

Distributed processing gets an updated look as vendors go for the grid: In early 2000, Cereon Genomics had a serious situation on its hands: It was running out of computing power. [ + ]

Stan Yakatan, "US venture capital raising guru" and strategic biotechnology adviser to the Victorian government, sits at a table in The Westin Melbourne's Allegro restaurant surrounded by breakfast, documents and five chairs intermittently filled and vacated biotech movers and shakers. [ + ]

Venture capitalists complain they are finding it ever-tougher to coax fresh funds from investors. Yet paradoxically, the total Australian pool of life science risk capital stands at record levels. [ + ]

Spend any time in the biobusiness sector and you learn one thing very quickly: it pays to be bilingual. And not in French or Spanish or Japanese, but in the languages of science and money. [ + ]

Barely a week goes by when an overseas business expert isn't out here telling Australian companies how it should be done. [ + ]

Plant genetics is a driving force in agricultural biotech in Australia, affecting the commercial crop industries, horticulture, forestry and viticulture. Even livestock industries have plant biotechnology programs to develop improved pasture crops. [ + ]

Calls for the government to initiate further commercialisation programs were premature, according to Commonwealth industry body Biotechnology Australia. [ + ]

A debate is emerging over where to draw the line on use of basic research funding sparked by the wholesale push towards commercialisation of Australian research. [ + ]

Described as the biggest advance in microscopy since the electron microscope, the second-generation scanning Kelvin probe has been unveiled by Australian scientists

Pilots, not planes, are needed to get Australia's nascent bioinformatics industry off the ground, according to one of the authors of a new report. [ + ]