The mists surrounding the mechanisms that switch genes on an off in higher organisms are beginning to clear, with a new study published today in Cell revealing previously unrecognised domains of chromosomes that are involved in regulating genes - even whole clusters of genes.

The National Stem Cell Centre (NSCC) has signed a research collaboration agreement with Nephrogenix, the company responsible for commercialising outcomes from the Renal Regeneration Consortium (RRC), which is investigating kidney development and regeneration.

Australia's research institutes and industry have a mutual responsibility, says Prof John Mattick -- to work together to translate academic ideas into ideas for development and commercialisation.

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) has been re-launched as a Bio21 initiative following the receipt of $90,000 over three years from the Victorian State government Department of Industry, Innovation and Regional Development's Office of Science and Technology for the program.

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience have discovered hundreds of sizeable tracts of DNA in the human genome that are 100 per cent identical in rats and mice, as if frozen across tens of millions of years of evolution.

Idiosyncratic researchers who are stubbornly out of step with the fashions of science may be among Australia's more valuable assets when it comes to building a successful life science industry, an Australian Venture Capital Association briefing in Sydney heard today.

A tri-state research collaboration is set to use sibling pairs to examine the genetic reasoning behind the most common form of eczema

Gene silencing specialist Benitec has denied rumours that it is to relocate from its IMB (Institute for Molecular Bioscience) base in Queensland to the US, claiming that North American media misreported the situation.

Ethics committees helping to oversee bio-research need to be put on a more professional footing, according a leading member of Australia’s ethics community, Prof Wayne Hall.

Professor Wayne Hall of the Queensland-based Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) has been named as one of the most published authors in his field - the genetics of addiction and mental disorders.

The commercialisation arm of Queensland's premier biotech research centre, the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, has capped a national search for a new chief executive by reaching into the Queensland bioscience community for its successful candidate.