100 jobs to go and two research labs to close following fall-out from budget.

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

There were mixed reactions from the science and research sector to yesterday's budget.

CSIRO research is paving the way for the production of novel biomaterials from bee and ant silk.

Almost everywhere humans have gone in their peregrinations around the planet, the world's second most ubiquitous mammal, the black rat, Rattus rattus, has followed.

Apollo aborts mission, investment fund licensed, biotechs move into Phase II trials and NuSep sorts its sperm.

Federal science minister Kim Carr outlines his thinking and his philosophy to Australian Life Scientist.

Australian research shows that a long-suspected alpha-toxin protein is not the guilty party in exacerbating poultry necrotic enteritis.

High performance computing is stimulating collaborative research across state - and country - borders.

New science minister promises charters of independence for public researchers.

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.