All ideas in science are wrong, at least at some level, so just get over it, says evolutionary biologist Bruce Walsh. He recommends applying the blowtorch of the Red Queen hypothesis to your own specialty. [ + ]

Can Tim Flannery make it three in a row for science in the Australian of the Year awards tomorrow? [ + ]

Clinuvel receives regulatory approval for clinical trials for its photo-protective drug CUV1647. [ + ]

A Melbourne research team has identified a gene which when deleted causes male-to-female sex reversal in XY mice. [ + ]

Experts at Johns Hopkins University, Duke Universit and Wake Forest University have published new language designed to help clinical researchers better disclose their financial interests in research.

A team of international scientists has just found the most important molecule in human fertility since the discovery of GnRH. [ + ]

Evolution is being harnessed for modern drug development by West Australian biotech Phylogica. [ + ]

Put away the cricket bats: scientists are using sex as weapon in the fight against the menace that is the cane toad. [ + ]

The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) is advertising nationally for a chief executive officer to implement ATSE’s strategy, which includes national and international interactions dealing with technological issues of importance to the broad Australian community.

Crunching the numbers from multivariate statistics sounds a rather dry topic to wet lab specialists, but a group of CSIRO researchers has taken a rather philosophical approach to managing the data mountain. [ + ]

An aberrant immune response - also observed in the bird flu virus H5N1 - may be the reason why the 1918 influenza pandemic killed so many healthy adults. [ + ]

Cambridge University researchers have proposed that stem cells differentiate much earlier in the embryonic development process than previously thought. [ + ]

A Princeton University study suggests it may be possible to deactivate viruses such as HIV indefinitely with the flick of a genetic switch. [ + ]

Widespread consultation has begun in a review of the use and supply of chemicals of security concern to prevent their possible use in a terrorist incident.

AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squib have joined forces to develop two compounds to treat type 2 diabetes. [ + ]