Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have produced images of brain cells forming temporary and permanent connections in response to various stimuli. [ + ]

Is Australia's scientific performance being watered down due to the pressures brought about by policy changes over a decade ago, or is it simply the case that university researchers are becoming much more clever in how they publish? [ + ]

The Australian Biotechnology Association has called for a more co-ordinated, strategic approach to the development of the biotechnology industry. [ + ]

Antibiotics to combat hospital superbugs as well as tuberculosis and salmonellas are being developed by Dr Jim Naismith of St Andrews University, Scotland. [ + ]

The unique dual-action role of a natural regulatory protein that controls cellular function has been described by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. [ + ]

An effective leukaemia vaccine could be available within a few years following a breakthrough by scientists in the UK. [ + ]

The Queensland government and The University of Queensland have announced a $50 million Australian Institute of Bio-Engineering and Nanotechnology would be established in Brisbane. [ + ]

A study into Australian entrepreneurship has recommended the creation of a Cooperative Development Centre (CDC) Program, modelled on the successful Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Program, and which would aim at developing expertise in commercialising research output. [ + ]

Dr Grant Griffiths, recently appointed acting director of the Institute for Nanoscale Technology, plans to strengthen the focus of UTS research and scholarship in nanotechnology. [ + ]

Researchers who have studied the activity of thousands of genes in a drug-resistant form of childhood leukemia are now proposing that the disease be called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) because it is a distinct disease, and not a subtype of the more prevalent acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). [ + ]

UTS scientists have made significant progress towards their goal of an effective gene-therapy treatment for diabetes that would make insulin injections obsolete. [ + ]

Nationally, the NHMRC is funding 408 project grants ($143 million), 16 new program grants ($115 million), and 46 fellowship grants ($25.5 million), totalling $283.5 million. [ + ]

Australia's diagnostic capability to deal with any potential large-scale outbreak of foot and mouth disease is being increased, thanks to two training workshops. [ + ]

A Ben-Gurion University research team, headed by Dr. Raz Jelinek, has recently designed one of the simplest, most rapid approaches to detect specific antibodies. [ + ]

Scientists from Johns Hopkins University, US, have created bacteria that selectively target large advanced tumours in mice. [ + ]