Most of Australia's staple foods would be altered through genetic technologies within the next 20 years, according to one of the nation's most celebrated scientists. [ + ]

Cyclotides are a unique group of plant proteins with unusual properties. Kalthera, a small Queensland biotech company, is developing technology to use them in therapeutic applications. [ + ]

Australia's biotechnology industry may be in for a big boost after a team from BASF, an international plant and chemical company, visited to find potential collaborative ventures. [ + ]

When Australia's best known stem cell researcher told a parliamentary committee on cloning that the nation had enough cell lines to maintain its research needs, even he couldn't foresee how swiftly the scenario would change. [ + ]

Australia's Anglican Church faces a split in its ranks with senior ministers at odds over embryonic stem cell research. [ + ]

A consummate politician he may be, but John Howard is no scientist. [ + ]

The Federal government has no constitutional power to ban embryonic stem cell research, even if it wanted to. [ + ]

Promising medical device start-up company Inhalix has reassessed its strategy and has temporarily parked the company while it reviews its future options, according to CEO Graeme Woodrow. [ + ]

Kevin Andrews, the man accused of having the power to potentially scotch embryonic stem cell research in Australia, certainly can't be accused of ignorant zealotry. [ + ]

The US subsidiary of homegrown drug discovery group Biota Holdings has announced plans to focus on treatments for hepatitis C virus. [ + ]

A range of employment opportunities is opening up for fledglings of the biotechnology industry as well as for young entrepreneurial scientists returning from overseas. [ + ]

Professor Grant Sutherland, one of Australia's leading geneticists, is retiring as the director of the Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide. [ + ]

A $4 million SGI Origin 3000 supercomputer has been officially launched by Paul Lucas, state minister for innovation and information economy, at the University of Queensland. [ + ]

Overseas research has boosted the argument for conducting stem cell research on human embryos, according to Peter Mountford, the head of Melbourne based company Stem Cell Sciences. [ + ]

John Thwaites, Victoria's Health Minister, has ruled out introducing his own laws to allow surplus IVF embryos to be used for stem cell research. [ + ]