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Biofuels - North America and India are into it in a big way, Brazil wants everyone to play, and China is spending a packet to join in. Now a group of Queensland biotechnologists have teamed up with the Swiss to sweeten the game.

BIO 2008 - Cancer detection by a hair's breadth

05 June, 2008 by Kate McDonald

The ability to diagnose breast cancer by studying human hair may sound a little out there, but Sydney company Fermiscan is about to finalise a validation trial of technology that will do just that.

Nanog patent for SCS

04 June, 2008 by Staff Writers

Stem Cell Sciences adds mouse Nanog methods to IP portfolio

BIO 2008: Sensing the sewage assassin

04 June, 2008 by Matt Rodgers

Victorian company Biosol is pioneering the use of microbial control to reduce corrosion in sewage pipes and cut greenhouse gas emissions at wastewater treatment plants.

BIO 2008: Starpharma's thoroughly modern microbicide

04 June, 2008 by Kate McDonald

It's been a big year for Starpharma, the Melbourne-based biotech working on a portfolio of applications for its dendrimer technology.

BIO 2008: Born free, Selborne free

03 June, 2008 by Staff Writers

Animal sera producer Selborne is exhibiting at BIO 2008 for the first time and promoting the image of the clean, green beauty of its home manufacturing base, Tasmania.

BIO 2008: GM - the passion and the politics

03 June, 2008 by Fiona Wylie

With the lifting of two moratoria on genetically modified crops in Australia recently, so did the inevitably polarised debate take off. Those for and against are unlikely to change their minds and, unfortunately, some scientists are now afraid to speak theirs.