Victorian company Biosol is pioneering the use of microbial control to reduce corrosion in sewage pipes and cut greenhouse gas emissions at wastewater treatment plants.

Canadian bioinformaticians develop new tools to create 3D structure of RNA.

Canadian researchers have developed a new technology to reveal the biochemical processes responsible for diseases such as cystic fibrosis.

Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott recently announced the 19 members of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for the next three years, presenting the head of one of Australia's largest medical research institutes, Professor Michael Good, with an unexpected but very welcome new challenge. Fiona Wylie reports.

A Royal Adelaide Hospital cardiovascular disease expert has told ABC-TV's current affairs program Four Corners that Merck & Co's anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx may have contributed to the deaths of many as 300 Australians from heart attack or stroke.

At the suggestion of eminent UK neuroscience researcher Baroness Susan Greenfield, the South Australian Government is establishing an Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC) in Adelaide to serve as a national portal for the media to obtain expert advice on science subjects.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has heard renewed calls for a national system for tracking the safety of critical implants and devices.

The President of the Australian Academy of Science, Dr Jim Peacock, has warned that governments could do “irreparable and lasting harm” by seeking to play safe when confronted by controversial technological change.

Macquarie University's decision to waive or reduce Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) fees for some science and technology subjects is likely to have little impact on students' choices about where and what they study, according to a Melbourne expert on education policy.

NSW Agriculture Minister Ian MacDonald has advised Bayer CropScience that it will not have to destroy a trial crop of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant canola near Wagga, despite the discovery of a small number of canola plants in the surrounding buffer zone.

Graeme O'Neill discovers that the biotech community needs a whole new strategy to win points on GM crops