The Western Australia Biomedical Research Institute (WABRI) has launched a A$500,000 fellowship program, funded jointly by Murdoch University, Curtin University of Technology, and Macquarie Bank Foundation.

In a first for the Australian dairy industry, four genetically modified calves have been born with an additional protein gene for milk protein production. [ + ]

Metabolic Pharmaceuticals has announced a trans-Tasman licensing deal and research collaboration to develop a new osteoporosis treatment. [ + ]

Brisbane biotech and animal venom specialist Xenome Ltd has found yet another partner to screen its library of bioactive peptide molecules. [ + ]

Next week's meeting of Australian governments should reopen the debate over therapeutic cloning of human embryos, top stem cell scientists said last night. [ + ]

CSIRO's major bioinformatics group is being reorganised and consolidated in a plan that could involve spinning off part of it as commercial operation. [ + ]

A new $22 million collaboration has been established to commercialise Australian neuroscience research. [ + ]

A Melbourne research group has become one of the first in the world to create a gene cream that successfully penetrates psoriasis lesions. [ + ]

Metabolic Pharmaceuticals has announced a trans-Tasman licensing deal and research collaboration to develop a new osteoporosis treatment. [ + ]

Melbourne gene discovery company Autogen has moved a step closer to listing on Nasdaq with the appointment of a strategic and corporate advisor in the United States. [ + ]

The director of the private Sydney IVF clinic said the clinic was already well on the way to producing stem cells and within three months it should have its first ones. [ + ]

An Australian-developed, non-invasive test to measure arterial stiffness and heart function has been given the official nod from the United States. [ + ]

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. [ + ]