CSL, ResMed, Cochlear, Ramsay, Ansell [ + ]

The Cancer Institute NSW Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer Researcher [ + ]

A massive triplet repeat expansion found in a wild strain of Arabidopsis thaliana could prove a very useful, and genetically tractable, model to study aspects of trinucleotide repeat disorders. [ + ]

Australian researchers led by Dr Paul Verma have created their own induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). [ + ]

A $3.1 billion boost in funding over the next four years has been promised to facilitate the government's latest innovation agenda.

University of Adelaide researchers are developing a world-first genetic test that can predict which pregnancies are at risk of complications long before symptoms arise.

Analysis of human hair at a crime scene may be possible with a portable technique adapted by Queensland University of Technology researcher Sarina Brandes.

Starpharma signs deal with Eli Lilly’s animal health division [ + ]

Termite foe BioProspect eyes off emu oil product range [ + ]

Graham Macdonald permanent chair of ASCC board of directors [ + ]

Elsevier published six ‘fake’ Australian medical journals on behalf of pharma companies [ + ]

Climate change, clean energy research and best practice approaches for providing expert advice to government were among the topics discussed when Prof Penny Sackett met with key US scientific advisers.

The Australian Academy of Science 2009 winners of distinguished awards for scientific excellence have been announced.

Cochlear, CSL, ResMed, Pharmaxis, Novogen, SciGen [ + ]

The study of biology reveals some truly amazing and quite nifty feats of biochemical engineering, and none less so than the way in which parasitic microorganisms invade their host. [ + ]