They may have sneered at each other in the past, but collaborative efforts for translational research between academia and industry are happening, and they are working.

Australian medical device company Ventracor is so pleased with its clinical trial design, it's decided to apply for a patent for it.

Large EST library for kiwifruit published, fleshing out apples and pears

Agilent Technologies is showing off one of its new Q-TOF mass spectrometers at the AOHUPO/PRICPS conference in Cairns this week.

A research director at Los Alamos National Laboratories said the addition of a peta-scale supercomputer is as big a leap forward as when scientists got their hands on their first computer ever.

Engineers and technicians at IBM are assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer - doubling the speed of the today's fastest machine.

SeerPharma to market new clinical software in Australia and south-east Asia

Model organisms such as zebrafish are vitally important in answering basic questions of developmental cell biology and signalling, and those built for distance and not speed may just have a few more prickles.

Research grid could lead to improved drug research and safer clinical trials for cancer and other diseases.

Graeme O'Neill has been writing about science for almost 30 years and along the way he's developed a couple of favourite stories. One is the evolution of fruit bats, recounted in our last issue, and the other is the role of FOXP2, sometimes called the Chomsky Gene. In a sublime twist, the two stories have merged together.

It's not the $1000 genome just yet, but Applied Biosystems says it's getting there.