Researchers are creating automated micro-fluidic devices which can do macro-chemistry at the microscale. The lab-on-a-chip DNA analyser wll be able to complete DNA tests away from the laboratory in a fraction of the current time required.

The Americans go to the polls in two months, and in the meantime many of the country’s regulatory agencies go into hibernation, including the all-important FDA. [ + ]

Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology claim to have found a safe way to store radioactive waste.

Female frogs like to take out insurance against disaster by putting eggs in several baskets [ + ]

In an elegant experiment published earlier this year, Ryszard Maleszka and his team at ANU showed that silencing a gene for DNA methylation in honey bees directly mimicked the effect of royal jelly on whether larvae go on to become queens or workers. [ + ]

The Shadoo protein has generated much interest over the last five years as it is one of only three known members of the prion protein family. [ + ]

ANU researchers have discovered a new species of iguana in Fiji [ + ]

Young plant researcher to be awarded Goldacre medal at ComBio [ + ]

A symposium at ComBio on wound healing promises to take audiences on a journey from basic cell biology right through to 3D skin scaffolds as therapies. [ + ]

Australian-trained scientist Dr Paul Trainor has made a career of making faces. In doing so, he hopes to uncover novel ways to prevent or treat congenital birth defects. [ + ]

Genetic Technologies founder Mervyn Jacobson moves to spill board and CEO [ + ]

Three new fund managers selected for Innovation Investment Fund [ + ]

HIV rates up by half, Chlamydia most common, hep C infection down [ + ]

NuSep to licence out electrophoresis gels business [ + ]

Major shareholders chip in half of capital raising [ + ]