Science minister Kim Carr announces replacement for dumped RQF. [ + ]

The first patients have begun treatment in Bionomics' Phase 1 trial of its vascular disruption agent. [ + ]

Gene research involving scientists at the University of Queensland’s (UQ) Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine has received high acclaim by leading scientific journals Science and Nature.

Early results from a 78-patient safety trial are promising for Prana's Alzheimer's compound. [ + ]

"Contemporary evolution" in action as commercial fisheries take the biggest and boldest. [ + ]

Three-year grant available for senior multiple sclerosis researchers. [ + ]

The evolutionary history of SARS suggests that bats, and not civet cats, were the original source of the virus. [ + ]

When the heat is on, boys will be girls, at least among bearded dragons. [ + ]

Embryonic stem cells containing the HOXB4 protein have successfully rebuilt irradiated mice immune systems. [ + ]

Applications for the Victoria Prize and Fellowships are open. [ + ]

After becoming an epigenetics convert four years ago at Lorne and winning the Eppendorf Young Investigator's Award there two years ago, Dr Jeff Craig returns to Lorne in 2008 as an invited speaker to present the fruits of his conversion. [ + ]

Differences between identical twins are probably caused by copy number variations, and not environmental factors, researchers report. [ + ]

Peter Little went looking for coordinated changes in expression patterns in 755 genes in mice. He found them, and a whole lot more, as he told the Lorne Genome conference this week. [ + ]

Analysis of protein interactions show pathogens preferentially interact with hubs and bottlenecks. [ + ]

Long suspected, a Swedish team has shown that the serotonin system is different in men and women. [ + ]