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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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

A major increase in research investments for Australia's burgeoning pasta wheat (durum) industry is being planned by the Grains Research and Development Corporation. [ + ]

Researchers have shown for the first time in living mammals that specific peptides with known anti-microbial properties, also act as natural antibiotics. [ + ]

CSIRO Livestock Industries has commenced a huge biotechnology recruitment drive that aims to reverse some of Australia's scientific brain drain. [ + ]

The south-east Asian Region's new centre for petroleum, minerals and mining research has been officially opened in Perth by Dr Geoff Gallop, premier of Western Australia. [ + ]

Scientists and technologists welcome the appointment of Brendan Nelson and Peter McGauran as ministers responsible for science. [ + ]