The evolutionary history of SARS suggests that bats, and not civet cats, were the original source of the virus.

Interest rates, evolutionary neighbours, antibodies get together and sorting sperm from the chaff.

Australia's great e-health vision continues to stall with new research showing that greater use of ICT in the health sector could generate savings worth more than $1.5 billion per annum.

Google and the J Craig Venter Institute are playing down highly publicised reports of a collaboration reported in a recently published book.

The life sciences can learn from the IT revolution, Prashant Tyagi explains.

Simon Easteal and Pythia Demonsthenes step back from 2050 to brief us on a century of healthcare.

The Allen Institute for Brain Science (AIBS) has released its first dataset of gene expression data in the brain for nearly 2,000 mouse genes - the first public release of the Allen Brain Atlas initiative. The institute's leadership believes the data will have important relevance for the study of brain function, disease, and the role of genes in governing human behaviour.

At a recent conference in Sydney, biotechs and big pharma came together to explore how they should work together. Renate Krelle was there.

As America salivates over Google stock, another offering is causing a stir among vendors serving the pharmaceutical industry.

Hour-long waits for results from gene and protein database searches that now take a few minutes could become reality within a few years, according to a search engine expert.