Western Australian company CollTech is aiming to raise up to AUD$5 million in its IPO to build a collagen extraction and purification facility, based on its novel and proprietary method for extracting the protein from sheep skins. [ + ]

AusBiotech members have elected Johnson & Johnson Research managing director Susan Pond, venture capitalist Leigh Farrell and former Amrad managing director Sandra Webb as corporate directors to its board, after a tight race between nine candidates. Western Australian Biomedical Research Institute director Simon Carroll was also re-elected as an institutional director. [ + ]

They seek it here, they seek it there, but it remains hidden in the genetic thickets of flowering and seed development. A place in history awaits its finder. [ + ]

Adelaide biotechnology company Bionomics (ASX:BNO, US OTC:BMICY) has found a friendly American bloodhound to help it track down new genes involved in epilepsy -- the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. [ + ]

Leading Australasian biscuit manufacturer Arnotts has reacted to the threat of a consumer demonstration against its products in New Zealand by renewing its commitment to avoid the use of GM ingredients. [ + ]

Perth-based pharmaceutical company Chemeq (ASX:CMQ) has announced that patents on its polymeric molecules to control microbial diseases in livestock have been approved in the US, Europe, Eurasia and China. [ + ]

Melbourne therapeutic vaccine company Virax (ASX:VHL) has taken its hepatitis B treatment into the pre-clinical development phase. [ + ]

Adelaide company TGR Biosciences has received a grant from the Gardiner Foundation to look for bioactives in milk. [ + ]

Gradipore (ASX: GDP) has raised AUD$2.7 million in a placement of six million shares at $0.45 to institutional investors. [ + ]

A groundbreaking international collaboration is quietly underway at The University of New South Wales.

Parents visiting the doctor for an ultrasound of their unborn baby will be able to 'touch' as well as see their baby with new technology being developed at Deakin University.

Researchers are attempting to perfect photosynthesis, a process pioneered by plants and bacteria, in an ambitious scheme to generate new foods, fabrics and even electricity, sustainably.

Can a frog that is known to bury itself in mud for months on end hold the key to avoiding muscle wastage in people with broken bones?

The genes of a bacterium that can kill or cause permanent organ damage in humans have been identified by Monash University researchers, whose efforts are now focused on finding a suitable vaccine.

Swinburne TAFE information technology students have created a range of innovative software packages. Two of the packages will influence communications within the Australian Department of Defence and assist in vital research being conducted at Monash University into the structure of proteins.