The Premier, Steve Bracks, said he expected Victoria would be internationally recognised as one of the top five biotechnology locations in the world by 2010.

ANU scientists will use a sensitive new testing procedure to determine whether mobile phone radiation causes harm too subtle to be detected by conventional techniques.

On Monday April 30th Unisearch Limited and IP Australia, the federal agency responsible for patents, trade marks and designs, will present the first in a series of short seminars on intellectual property and aspects of bringing innovations to the marketplace.

Minister for Industry, Science and Resources, Senator Nick Minchin, has welcomed a Memorandum of Understanding between AIMS and the Itochu Corporation of Japan expanding a long standing alliance between Itochu and the CSIRO.

Coherent Life Sciences has been appointed the exclusive distributor of Nikon biomedical and industrial microscopes in Australia.

Scientists, not as a group thought of as the world's greatest comedians, have recently probed the human brain in a bid to find out how people 'get' (understand) jokes.

Bio-Rad Microscience has been selected as lead supplier of laser scanning microscope systems for the new Biophotonics Centre at Strathclyde University, Scotland.

The Australian Academy of Science is offering a special early-career researcher program in conjunction with Science at the Shine Dome on 2-4 May 2001 in Canberra.

Professor Peter Cullen is to become President of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) again.

On March 26, the 33 Australian scientists whose papers have been most-frequently cited by their colleagues are to be honoured at a ceremony in Canberra that has been likened to awarding Oscars to scientists.

SA wheat and barley growers could soon have five new varieties from which to choose.

Biological controls must be found to halt the march of cane toads across Australia, according to Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill.

Australian scientists have won the world's most prestigious award for timber research for the second year running.

The provision of alternate energy has received a boost with an announcement that the State's first Geothermal Exploration Licences have been offered.

The Minister for State and Regional Development, John Brumby, today announced the Bracks Government would provide a $110,000 grant to the Birchip Cropping Group to expand its research facilities - a project that will support the further development of the grain industry in the Wimmera/Mallee.