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. [ + ]

The New Directions in Leukaemia Research Conference starts next week and will feature John Rasko and two zinc finger transcription factors called BORIS and CTCF. [ + ]

Full-time chief scientist sought by Federal Government. [ + ]

Spanish paleoanthropologists say a jawbone found last year is from the oldest known hominin in western Europe. [ + ]

Fossil bones of the Djarthia, our earliest known marsupial, have been linked to South America's extant Monito del Monte. [ + ]

Two local scientists are off to the BIO convention in June after winning the Advance BioBusiness award. [ + ]