The latest funding round of the Victoria Israel Science and Technology R&D Fund (VISTECH) has just opened, with the deadline for all applications on Monday 10 September 2007.

Florey research into schizophrenia mouse model finds exercise rescues abnormal chemical transmitter pathway. [ + ]

Victorian biotech and life science companies are invited to apply for the next round of the Vistech program. [ + ]

Call for applications for NSW BioBusiness scheme. [ + ]

The third round of the Tarac Environmental Future Fund (TEFF) has been launched in Adelaide during the Wine Industry Technical conference.

The Iemma Government is offering grants of up to $100,000 to help life science companies commercialise their research, Minister for State Development Ian Macdonald announced today.

The Australian Synchrotron is officially open for business. [ + ]

A variant in the gene responsible for the production of the interleukin-7 receptor linked to multiple sclerosis. [ + ]

The global market for microscopes and accessories will rise from around $2.1 billion in 2006 to $3.6 billion by 2012, according to a recent report published by BCC Research.

US researchers have created a mouse HapMap, a freely available map of genetic variation in the laboratory mouse genome. [ + ]

Nine-headed gene in Drosophila thought to have developed from transposon. [ + ]

A NSW PhD student is looking at a cotton fungus to understand its interaction with other seedling pathogens. [ + ]

Australian researchers at the Advanced Wastewater Management Centre will receive extra backing from the International Science Linkages fund for the development of a more efficient method of processing wastewater.

SA company offers IPO to further commercialise monoclonal antibody technology. [ + ]

Research shows that the use of one antibiotic increases resistance but also increases the carriage of resistance genes against other classes of antibiotics. [ + ]