A new study suggests that premature ejaculation might be a genetic disorder. [ + ]

Scientists speed up menopause, causing infertility in crop-destroying pests. Non-surgical spaying of pets may be next step. [ + ]

Therapeutic contact lenses and patients’ own stem cells used to rehabilitate damaged eye surfaces [ + ]

ResMed, Ramsey [ + ]

Sequencing the DNA of a woolly mammoth frozen in permafrost and the shortly to be published genome of the Neanderthal is exciting – and very popular – science. And while Australia doesn’t have the right geological history for momentous work like this, we do have the ability to solve some interesting local questions, such as what wiped out our megafauna. [ + ]

A man travelling to the United States was detained by immigration officials for four hours before they allowed him to enter because one of his cancer drugs caused his fingerprints to disappear. [ + ]

Possible avenue for treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia [ + ]

Artificial polymer can inhibit abnormal protein behaviour that leads to Parkinson's [ + ]

After 1 June, Molecular Devices products (previously supplied by MDS Analytical Technologies) will be supplied, serviced and supported by Bio-Strategy in both Australia and New Zealand.

Yeast missing sex genes still undergo sexual reproduction [ + ]

$28.7 million collaboration promises further stem cell research [ + ]

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). [ + ]