A systematic analysis of the medical literature shows that nutrition studies'' conclusions correlate with who funds them – much like the bias found for pharmaceutical studies, but with potentially greater public health implications.

Applications for the Advancing BioBusiness Award, being piloted by drug company Merck Sharpe & Dohme (MSD) and not-for-profit networking organisation Advance, close on 25 January, 2007. [ + ]

Sigma-Aldrich, a life science and high technology company, has announced that it has granted Pfizer a worldwide non-exclusive research licence to use DNA-directed RNAi (ddRNAi) technology.

Hematech and Kirin Brewery Company have announced the production of healthy prion protein-knockout cows.

CSIRO has announced the signing of a licensing agreement with Melbourne-based bio-technology medical device company, HD Medical Group Limited, for commercial application of its non-contact sensor technology.

A $5.1 million Queensland University of Technology research project that aims to improve the health of East Africans will be stepped up after a massive funding boost.

Transforming products from agricultural and food processing streams into health-enhancing ingredients for use in a variety of foods and nutraceuticals is the aim of a $7 million Flagship Collaboration Fund Cluster involving CSIRO’s Food Futures Flagship, Monash University and the University of Melbourne.

The Company Chemists Association has offered Australian companies the opportunity to attend New Frontiers 2007, business seminar and business speed dating event, which seeks to help international companies that are keen to expand into the United Kingdom pharmacy market to fast track their business and understanding of the market.

The Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and AlgoNomics have joined forces to develop a technology that verifies whether certain proteins induce an immune response in humans.

Scientists at Melbourne’s Howard Florey Institute have discovered a system in the brain that stops an alcoholic’s craving for alcohol, as well as preventing relapse once they have recovered from alcohol addiction.

Stage two of the John de Laeter Centre of Mass Spectrometry at Curtin University of Technology has been lauched by Fran Logan, Minister for Energy, Science and Innovation.

Research at The University of Queensland could revolutionise the treatment of pain relief with the help of a sea snail.

CSIRO researchers have located the gene that controls the colour of apples – a discovery that may lead to bright new apple varieties.

Entries are now being accepted for Innovic’s Next Big Thing Award 2007.

Australian science infrastructure will be upgraded by $500 million in Australian government funding announced by the Minister for Education, Science and Training, Julie Bishop.