Matt Gillespie is the new director of Melbourne's Prince Henry's Institute.

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.

Genomics is old hat and proteomics is now where it's at, according to Richard Christopherson.

US researchers have isolated the multipotent progenitor cell in humans for the first time.

A new dimension to commercial next-generation sequencing applications - one that could potentially pose a threat to more-established microarray technologies - has been revealed in two recent papers.

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.

LCT is set to start a pig islet transplantation trial for type 1 diabetes that may have a profound effect on the debate over Australia's xenotransplantation moratorium in 2009.

Malaria specialist Brendan Crabbe appointed new director of Burnet Institute.

Hundreds of maps of the visual system available online for evolutionary research.

The Japanese team that proved how to induce stem cells from human skin seems to have overcome the Myc tumorigenesis barrier.

The Australasian Society for Immunology is holding its annual conference this week. Key note speaker Andreas Strasser will discuss his latest findings on the functions of apoptosis-related proteins in the immune system.