Suzanne Cory and Jim Peacock among top ten most cited Australian researchers.

Subordinate fish keep their weight down to survive the pecking order.

Hox genes - long thought to define the body plans of all animals - are not used by corals.

The Queensland government and a consortium of Queensland universities will together invest AUD$5 million in the Melbourne-based Australian Synchrotron.

Speaking at BIO 2005 in Philadelphia, Victorian premier Steve Bracks announced a new AUD$63 million initiative to fund the new Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative (VNI).

Eleven new ARC centres of excellence and 24 federation fellowship receipients will share $162 million in federal government funding.

Australian researchers have shown in a mouse model that a bacterial toxin used as an immune-stimulating agent in some vaccines may increase the risk of developing autoimmune disease, where the immune system reacts against the body's own proteins.

With the honeybee genome about to be completed, work is ramping up in Assoc Prof Ben Oldroyd's laboratory at the University of Sydney to take advantage of the information it offers.

The funding floodgates suddenly appear to have swung open for young and not-so-young biotechs -- at least in Queensland.

The latest round of NHMRC funding grants shows Queensland's boast of being the most decentralised state does not extend to medical research.

An Australian researcher at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has solved the medical mystery of the death of an East Timorese man from what appeared to be poisoning in late 2000.