SGI introduces cool-running blade server system and scores QUT contract.

Highlights of who's heading to Melbourne for the annual Deakin Lectures.

Following a rancorous and polarising public debate last year, the creation of embryonic stem cell lines through somatic cell nuclear transfer will become legal in Australia on June 12.

The Platypus Genome Project is uncovering some interesting information about the chromosomal makeup of marsupials and monotremes.

A team of international scientists has just found the most important molecule in human fertility since the discovery of GnRH.

Crunching the numbers from multivariate statistics sounds a rather dry topic to wet lab specialists, but a group of CSIRO researchers has taken a rather philosophical approach to managing the data mountain.

A Sydney research team has shown that encapsulating embryonic stem cells prevents the formation of tumours.

The bill to overturn the ban on using therapeutic cloning was passed by the Senate last night. We provide a breakdown of who voted and how.

The Australian Senate has today taken the first steps in overturning the ban on therapeutic cloning, voting 35 to 31 in favour of a private member's bill recommending the adoption of the Lockhart Review.

Debate on Senator Kay Patterson's private member's bill to allow therapeutic cloning for stem cell research will begin in the Senate next week, with a vote to be taken by Friday, 10 November.