Matt Padula is part of a team at UTS that is using de novo peptide sequencing of the proteins and enzymes in a common tick to look for candidate antigens for a potential vaccine against one of Australia's deadliest parasites.

Australia's durum wheat growers have extra reason to be worried as the worst drought in two centuries provides a grim foretaste of the Infernal Century. However, a chance discovery of a salt-tolerance gene from decades-old seed lines is looking promising.

Mariapia Degli-Esposti's team at Perth's Lions Eye Institute is looking closely at why the immune system puts up a good fight against some viral infections but has problems with others.

The elusive molecule responsible for spreading gene silencing through plants is still unknown, but the pioneers of RNAi research at CSIRO Plant Industry are close to tracking it down.

Studying the symbiotic relationship between legumes and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria raises the possibility of a potential application in cereals.

Did the evolution of C4 photosynthesis pathways in grasses helped kick-start modern human evolution as well?

It's not just venom or toxins that cause harm when an angry critter bites - many species have a habit of leaving behind nasty bacterial infections as well.

Understanding genetic influences is one thing, the psychosocial impact of genetic counselling is another.

Professor German Spangenberg is arguably Australia's leading researcher into plant genetics and genomics.

Nutrigenomics could be used to help solve the growing obesity crisis.

A French team believes it has identified the ancestral bacterial gene pool for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.