Dee Carter and her group have revitalised taxonomy in Australia as well as our understanding of the evolution of the Plasmodium species with the discovery of a long-lost cousin. And they came across it at the bottom of Sydney Harbour.

Physics and biology have come together to solve one of science's big issues - the structure of membrane proteins - through the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science.

NuSep's fertility device among top 20 projects to be funded by ARC

Two West Australian high school students place highly in international biotech competition

WA company Epichem and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative are collaborating to develop new drugs to treat African sleeping sickness and similar, forgotten diseases.

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.

The May/June 2008 issue of Australian Life Scientist is out now.

Hagfish may be ferociously ugly little creatures, but they can teach us much about the evolution of the vertebrate eye.

Cholesterol is an essential ingredient in healthy lung function, Australian research shows.

ALS previews the Hunter Cellular Biology Meeting, which starts tomorrow.

Tom Gonda has taken a robotic approach to functional genomics.