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

Chinese scientists have developed an online molecular database of 1500 human genes linked to drug addiction.

p53, the gene thought to be essential in helping chemotherapy kill cancer cells, may actually help them thrive.

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

The first of six human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines to be developed by Stem Cell Sciences, Melbourne IVF and the Australian Stem Cell Centre has been produced and will be made available to researchers around the world unfettered by commercial restrictions.

A new report from the UK Commons Science and Technology Committee lends strong support to the movement of open-access publishing.

Comments by genomics pioneer Francis Collins that Australian company Genetic Technologies' patents over non-coding DNA were of "questionable appropriateness" have spurred not so much a rebuttal, but more of a philosophical argument from the company's CEO.