A new network for the medical device industry is gearing up for launch. [ + ]

Plant breeders are expected to benefit from a joint venture between a Melbourne genetics company and the Victorian Government. [ + ]

Changes to Australian patent laws from April 1 will make filing harder, but will also bring the country more into line with US and European patent laws. [ + ]

South Australian drug discovery company GroPep (ASX:GRO) has begun selling off sections of its newly acquired intellectual property treasure chest. [ + ]

Victoria's government has backed stem cell research despite its existing ban on embryonic cell studies. [ + ]

Drug developer Amrad Corporation has raised $15.5 million in capital to help progress its clinical trials program. [ + ]

Australian biotechnology company BresaGen's half-year results to December 2001 show an increase in revenue by 15 per cent, to $3,661,000, over the same period a year ago. [ + ]

Dental research group SDI has reported a half-yearly jump in profits and sales on the back of its suite of aesthetic and alloy restorative products. [ + ]

Agriculture Victoria's 40-year bantamised hen project has entered the commercialisation phase, beginning a joint research deal with an elite international breeder. [ + ]

Australian researchers were wasting 90 per cent of their intellectual property value because they did not understand how to use it, a patent attorney has warned. [ + ]

A screening instrument that enables drug company technicians to run parallel tests has been released by Melbourne-based company Axon Instruments (ASX: AXN). [ + ]

The world's leading non-profit funder of diabetes research was in Australia this week (February 27) to seek out Australian stem cell scientists. [ + ]

Innovation is the 21st Century driver for economic growth, high quality jobs, wealth and improved living standards, the Minister for Innovation, John Brumby, has said.

Brisbane biotech business Xenome Ltd is moving closer to human trials with a pain-killing molecule derived from the venom of a marine shellfish. [ + ]

Backing hopeful young companies into the listed shells of mining companies is an old habit in Western Australia. [ + ]