Professor John Mattick will steer the Garvan Institute towards a more integrated systems approach when he becomes Executive Director of the institute following the retirement of Professor John Shine. [ + ]

Information sessions will be held to learn about the new government R&D tax incentive for businesses.

A donation from an Australian businessman has enabled the Australian Institute of Nanoscience to be built.

The mysteries of aluminium will be revealed in a seminar at the World Metrology Day awards presentation.

The mysteries of aluminium will be revealed in a seminar at the World Metrology Day awards presentation.

Despite the rumbles of discontent surrounding the usefulness of genome-wide association studies, Nick Martin is convinced they remain a useful tool for understanding complex traits and diseases. [ + ]

There will be an increasing demand for temporary workers in the scientific industry, according to Kelly Scientific Resources.

The appearance of a new mutant of bird flu in Asia raises the concern that it might hybridise with swine flu creating a new pandemic threat. [ + ]

Phase I/IIa human trials for Immuron’s (ASX:IMC) IMM 255 immunotherapy for influenza will take place in Israel. [ + ]

The Center for Proteomics at the Translational Genomics Research Institute is selected as a Waters Center of Innovation and recognises Dr Konstantinos Petritis and his team for research excellence.

Part two of our feature on the genetics of modern cotton explores its fascinating evolutionary past, and how it was shaped by human cultivation. [ + ]

The R&D tax credit has been passed in Parliament to help businesses in every sector of the Australian economy transform and invest in the future.

QRxPharma (ASX:QRX) has completed its New Drug Application submission with the FDA, one of the last hurdles before being given regulatory approval. [ + ]

A bold new experiment has shown that controlled release of mosquitoes carrying a bacteria that prevents infection by dengue fever can be an effective control of the widespread disease. [ + ]

Professor Jonathan Wendel is retracing the genetic changes to cotton that have occurred over more than 5000 years of domestication. [ + ]