Salvador, Warts, Hippo and Yorkie are an eclectically named group of genes that form the core components of a signalling pathway in Drosophila that regulates control of organ size and may have some important parallels with human cancer. [ + ]

Australian Stem Cell Centre expands up north. [ + ]

Suzanne Cory and Jim Peacock among top ten most cited Australian researchers. [ + ]

Citation is the life-blood of many scientists. Thomson Scientific Citation Awards acknowledge those scientists with the highest overall citation rankings.

The opening of the second node of Australia's Stem Cell Centre will strengthen Australia's biotechnology capability.

The grandmother hypothesis suggests women survive for years after menopause in order to help their offspring to reproduce, but why do human females stop reproducing in the first place? [ + ]

UK scientists have successfully created human-animal hybrid embryos using nuclear transfer. [ + ]

Who would have thought that Chinese vegies, phosphopeptides and stressed mitochondria might advance the treatment of type 2 diabetes? [ + ]

Model organisms such as zebrafish are vitally important in answering basic questions of developmental cell biology and signalling, and those built for distance and not speed may just have a few more prickles. [ + ]

Nominations for the Prime Minister's prizes for science close on May 9. [ + ]

An Ebola virus has been successfully tested in primates.

ALS previews the Hunter Cellular Biology Meeting, which starts tomorrow. [ + ]

Copy number variations are much more frequent in people with schizophrenia. [ + ]

Mycobacterium ulcerans, which causes devastating ulcerous disease, isolated and fully characterised. [ + ]