Four scientists from New South Wales have won awards for scientific excellence in career research from peak science body the Australian Academy of Science.

University of Sydney researchers have finally solved a conundrum scientists have been puzzling over for 30 years: why nest temperature can affect the likelihood of certain reptiles being born male or female.

Australian scientists are researching a possible way of making aggressive prostate cancer cells less invasive after their discovery of a protein essential for the normal functioning of cells.

US researchers identify protein that stops the release of HIV by tethering it to the cell. [ + ]

Bacteria can dodge the immune response by hiding out in macrophage vacuoles nicknamed SLAPs. [ + ]

Queensland researchers have discovered a second protein essential for caveolae formation. [ + ]

Lomb Scientific is set to open an office and warehouse facility in the Melbourne suburb of Kensington.

New science minister promises charters of independence for public researchers. [ + ]

Bonnet Equipment, supplier of a range of high quality laboratory products and consumables to laboratories in Australia and New Zealand, has recently instituted a name change to Microanalytix.

US scientists have engineered a bioartificial heart by perfusion decellularisation. [ + ]

Invitrogen, a provider of life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, has announced a definitive agreement to purchase privately held American company CellzDirect for around $57 million.

Scientists at CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, Victoria, have found that birds are unlikely to be used as part of an ‘early warning’ system for the deadly West Nile virus in Australia.

Fungi don't exactly come in boy and girl varieties, but they do have sex differences. [ + ]

Physicists at NIST-Boulder have carried out a powerful new spectroscopic study of a gas sample using optical frequency combs.

Chinese scientists have developed an online molecular database of 1500 human genes linked to drug addiction. [ + ]