Rightly or wrongly, concerns over GM crops contaminating their non-GM kin have led to a stalemate in progress towards acceptance of GM crops and foods. We look at a new approach using gene silencing and gene imprinting.

Biofuels - North America and India are into it in a big way, Brazil wants everyone to play, and China is spending a packet to join in. Now a group of Queensland biotechnologists have teamed up with the Swiss to sweeten the game.

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

The Japanese team that proved how to induce stem cells from human skin seems to have overcome the Myc tumorigenesis barrier.

The elusive molecule responsible for spreading gene silencing through plants is still unknown, but the pioneers of RNAi research at CSIRO Plant Industry are close to tracking it down.

NZ researchers have developed a potential biological solution to prevent lipids being transformed into trans fats.

Put away the cricket bats: scientists are using sex as weapon in the fight against the menace that is the cane toad.

Graeme O'Neill speaks with RNAi pioneer Peter Waterhouse and meets Drosha, Dicer, Argonaute and other characters.

Nowhere is the potential of agricultural biotechnology and GM crops more obvious than in Africa, as Graeme O'Neill reports.

Western Australia's agriculture minister, Kim Chance, is taking what many are now seeing as an overly cautious stance on biotechnology. Graeme O'Neill reports.

International science journal Nature Biotechnology has taken the Western Australian agriculture minister Kim Chance to task for funding a supposedly independent study of the health effects of genetically modified food crops by an Adelaide research institute renowned for its anti-GM activism.